Political Quotes

Jim Bunning

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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.

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Nov 21, 2003

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.

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Nov 21, 2003

DOE has not, I say has not, identified a willing payor.

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Nov 21, 2003

we have to do something different than what we are doing, because they are obviously adversaries of those filing claims

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Nov 21, 2003

We tried. We put--Senator Bingaman and I tried very hard to do that.

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Nov 21, 2003

That is just--go ahead, Senator Murkowski.

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Nov 21, 2003

Missouri is at 3 percent. Kentucky is at .04 percent of claims filed.

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Nov 21, 2003

Well then, your number is completely wrong, if they have not gone through the process.

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Nov 21, 2003

I did not say--in less than 50 percent of the cases.

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Nov 21, 2003

Then the pool could be bigger. Maybe you could make the pool bigger.

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