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...The one US sports star who lasted the political pace into old age was ace pitcher turned senator Jim Bunning — but he was reputedly much loathed in the Senate: by opponents for being inflexibly rightwing...
...Jim Bunning, a Republican senator from Kentucky, said the timing was “suspicious”. “Can you understand why this looks like a political stunt to distract the public?...
...Jim Bunning was characteristically cantankerous over the past week as he produced a colourful piece of Washington political theatre....
...The practical difficulties of being confirmed for a second four-year term as Fed chairman – the ostensible purpose of the hearing – were compounded when Senator Jim Bunning said he would “do everything I...
...An eclectic group of senators, from Bernie Sanders, the self-proclaimed socialist on the left, and Jim Bunning, the stalwart Republican on the right, have been vocal in their opposition to Mr Bernanke, threatening...
...Republican Jim Bunning asked for a two-week delay before voting on the bill so it could be drafted in legislative language and the Congressional Budget Office could price it....
...Yesterday’s debate on Mr Bernanke was unusually strident with an eclectic group of senators, from Bernie Sanders, the self-proclaimed socialist, on the left, to Jim Bunning, the stalwart Republican, on the...
...On Tuesday Jim Bunning, the outgoing Republican senator for Kentucky, underlined the public’s growing disaffection with the process of politics in Washington when he continued single-handedly to delay extension...
...Jim Bunning, a Republican committee member, questioned the status of credit default swaps – the size of which heightened financial meltdown fears last year....
...At his first confirmation only Jim Bunning, a Republican, voted against. This time there are likely to be more naysayers....
...The charge in the Senate will be led by Debbie Stabenow, a Democrat from Michigan, and Jim Bunning, a Republican from Kentucky....
...Bunning, once a great baseball pitcher, throwing dumb tosses at the prospective secretary of energy, who happens to own a Nobel Prize for physics....
...Jim Bunning, a conservative Republican from Kentucky, said that Mr Geithner had not provided a proper explanation for why he had failed to pay....
...Senator Jim Bunning of Kentucky also attacked the Democratic proposals to help the car companies with funds from the $700bn financial aid package passed in October....
...Jim Bunning, senator from Kentucky, called it “financial socialism” and “un-American”....
...On Thursday Jim Bunning and Jim DeMint, two Republican senators, demanded that the legislation be sent back to the banking committee so legislators could better examine what benefits would incur to mortgage...
...“Geithner has an incestuous relationship with Wall Street,” said Jim Bunning, the latest Republican lawmaker to call for his scalp. “Where’s the [bail-out] plan?...
...Jim Bunning of Kentucky added: “This massive bail-out is not the solution, it is financial socialism, it is un-American.”...
...Jim Bunning, a Republican senator from Kentucky and outspoken critic of the Fed, said: “When I picked up my newspaper on Tuesday I thought I woke up in France”....
...Say, your yard’s looking mighty fine lately, Jim,” Stan Cox imagines commenting to a neighbour. “Everything OK with your wife?”...
...Jim Bunning, the Republican senator, said “the business model is an inherent conflict of interest”, while Democratic senator Charles Schumer said there was scope for a new structure....
...Mr Bernanke even drew favourable comment from unorthodox quarters, including Jim Bunning, the maverick Republican senator. Several common themes have emerged from the hearings....
...Mr Bernanke even drew favourable comment from unorthodox quarters, including Jim Bunning, the maverick Republican senator, and Sherrod Brown, the anti-free trade Democrat....
...But, warned Jim Bunning, a Kentucky Republican: “We can’t just penalise these companies with an accounting gimmick.”...
...Jim Bunning, the first witness to appear, was a reminder of a different slice of history....
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