{"id":382067,"date":"2010-03-02T21:57:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T02:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/press-releases\/senate-approves-jobless-aid-road-funding"},"modified":"2010-03-02T21:57:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T02:57:29","slug":"senate-approves-jobless-aid-road-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/382067","title":{"rendered":"Senate approves jobless aid, road funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>The Senate has passed stopgap legislation to extend help for the jobless and keep federal highway dollars flowing.<\/p>\n<p>The 78-19 vote came after a Republican senator who was single-handedly holding up the legislation finally relented under withering assaults by Democrats and dwindling support within his own party.<\/p>\n<p>Kentucky Republican Jim Bunning had been holding up action for days but conceded after pressure intensified with Monday&#8217;s cutoff of road funding and longer and more generous unemployment benefits and health insurance subsidies for the jobless. Bunning was seeking to force Democrats to finance the $10 billion measure so that it wouldn&#8217;t add to the deficit.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article from <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.pjstar.com\/news\/x699612086\/GOP-senator-relents-on-jobless-bill\" title=\"Senate approves jobless aid, road funding\" rel='nofollow'>Journal Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Distributed via <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\" rel='nofollow'>Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/TBV8w7XBisJwKjFuL8KiaaFvvEI\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/TBV8w7XBisJwKjFuL8KiaaFvvEI\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/TBV8w7XBisJwKjFuL8KiaaFvvEI\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/TBV8w7XBisJwKjFuL8KiaaFvvEI\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=AX4pfcsz3c4:ak_ExGWXPfM:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=AX4pfcsz3c4:ak_ExGWXPfM:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=AX4pfcsz3c4:ak_ExGWXPfM:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?i=AX4pfcsz3c4:ak_ExGWXPfM:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/windycitynews\/~4\/AX4pfcsz3c4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate has passed stopgap legislation to extend help for the jobless and keep federal highway dollars flowing. The 78-19 vote came after a Republican senator who was single-handedly holding up the legislation finally relented under withering assaults by Democrats and dwindling support within his own party. Kentucky Republican Jim Bunning had been holding up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}