Jim Bunning
The Public Record
Jim Bunning is a former United States Senator from Kentucky, serving from 1999 to 2011. A member of the Republican Party, Bunning was known for his strong conservative positions and advocacy for fiscal responsibility. Before his political career, he was a professional baseball player, notably a pitcher in Major League Baseball, where he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1987. Bunning's tenure in the Senate included a focus on issues such as energy policy and workers' compensation reform, often criticizing the Department of Energy's handling of compensation programs for workers.
It was for that reason that the AFL-CIO was supportive of the Grassley-Murkowski amendment as indeed the first step in at least trying to alleviate some of this claims-handling process.
we have to do something different than what we are doing, because they are obviously adversaries of those filing claims
Well then, your number is completely wrong, if they have not gone through the process.