AP Top News at 12:49 a.m. EST

By AP
Monday, January 4, 2010

AP Top News at 12:49 a.m. EST

Senate votes unemployment benefits, highway funds

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Tuesday passed a $10 billion measure to maintain unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless and provide stopgap funding for highway programs after a holdout Republican dropped stalling tactics that had generated a Washington firestorm. Kentucky Republican Jim Bunning had been holding up action for days but conceded after pressure intensified with Monday’s cutoff of road funding and extended unemployment benefits and health insurance subsidies for the jobless.

Obama cites GOP ideas as he preps health care plan

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