{"id":678925,"date":"2010-03-01T16:50:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T21:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=77958"},"modified":"2010-03-01T16:50:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T21:50:47","slug":"bunning-kills-ui-extension-for-an-eleventh-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/678925","title":{"rendered":"Bunning Kills UI Extension for an Eleventh Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) just took to the chamber floor asking for unanimous consent to pass a temporary extension of unemployment insurance, COBRA benefits and a handful of additional funding provisions that expired yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>You already know the outcome.<span id=\"more-77958\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) continued his one-man blockade of the legislation, insisting that Democratic leaders come up with the $10 billion the proposal is estimated to cost.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The debt that we have arrived at,&#8221; Bunning said, &#8220;it&#8217;s unsustainable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It marks the eleventh time since in less than a week that Bunning has blocked the bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) just took to the chamber floor asking for unanimous consent to pass a temporary extension of unemployment insurance, COBRA benefits and a handful of additional funding provisions that expired yesterday. You already know the outcome. Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) continued his one-man blockade of the legislation, insisting that Democratic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2763,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2QCp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2763"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}