Mar 1 2010
The Hill: "The Senate will pass the stalled temporary extension of certain unemployment benefits but a yearlong extension might be a tougher sell, Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) said Sunday. Republicans and Democrats had reached an agreement on the temporary extension last week but Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) objected to unanimous consent on the $10 billion measure, stalling its passage until next week even though the benefits expire Sunday. Kyl defended the reason behind Bunning's objection but said that the extension would pass this week over the Kentucky senator's opposition. 'All Senator Bunning was saying, quite correctly that it should be paid for,' Kyl said on Fox News Sunday. 'It will pass though, because it's a temporary extension' (Fabian, 2/28).
 This article was reprinted from khn.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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