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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Jim Bunning

Jim Bunning stories: 7 news summaries

Cash-Poor Bunning Won't Run in 2010

Ky. Republican blasts party for campaign 'to dry up my fundraising'

Jul 28, 09 6:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - An irate Jim Bunning said last night he won't run for a third term in the US Senate because his fellow Republicans "have done everything in their power to dry up my fundraising" amid pressure to step aside, the Louisville Courier-Journal reports. Bunning, 77, has focused his ire on... More »

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GOP • Kentucky • Mitch McConnell • Senate Republicans • Republican Party • re-election • US Senate • Jim Bunning • fundraising • Trey Grayson

 Senators Rank 
 Bipartisan Colleagues 

Kennedy, Collins named most bipartisan

Apr 21, 09 8:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - If you want to reach across the aisle in the Senate, chances are you're stretching toward Ted Kennedy or Susan Collins, according to a Hill survey of the upper chamber. “I’d love to co-sponsor every piece of legislation with Ted Kennedy,” says Sen. Richard Burr. The most... More »

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Congress • Charles Schumer • Senate • Senate Democrats • Ted Kennedy • Senate Republicans • Patrick Leahy • partisanship • Susan Collins • bipartisanship • Jim Bunning



 Ginsburg: 
 I'm Not 
 Going 
 Anywhere 

Justice says cancer won't stop her from serving several more years

Mar 6, 09 10:21 AM CST
(Newser) - Contrary to Beltway speculation, Ruth Bader Ginsburg doesn't plan to leave the Supreme Court any time soon. The 75-year-old justice has survived cancer before (colorectal, a decade ago), and doesn't see a reason why the recent diagnosis of pancreatic cancer should cut short her judicial career, she tells USA Today.... More »

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg • pancreatic cancer • US Supreme Court • Jim Bunning • President Obama

Bunning Is the GOP's Burris

Despite electoral peril and party pressure, gaffe-prone Kentucky senator won't retire

Mar 6, 09 7:05 AM CST
(Newser) - Senator Jim Bunning, a former Hall of Fame pitcher, may have absorbed too much “quitters never win” talk while still an athlete: The New York Times reports that the erratic Kentuckian won’t go away, despite his Republican colleagues’ best efforts. Bunning barely held his seat in 2004 after... More »

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Senate • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Kentucky • Senate Republicans • John Cornyn • Senate race • Jim Bunning • Election 2010 • National Republican Senatorial Committee • Bill Maher Grid

Sen. Bunning Apologizes for Grim Ginsburg Comment

It's great to see justice back, Republican says

Feb 23, 09 3:05 PM CST
(AP) - Sen. Jim Bunning apologized to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for saying he believes she is likely to die in less than a year from pancreatic cancer. The Kentucky Republican said over the weekend that Ginsburg has the type of cancer that is usually fatal within 9 months. In a statement... More »

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cancer • Senate • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Kentucky • conservative • US Supreme Court • Jim Bunning

Ginsburg Back in Court After Cancer Surgery

Docs optimistic, but senator predicts justice has 9 months to live

Feb 23, 09 10:37 AM CST
(Newser) - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg returned to the Supreme Court today, 18 days after her surgery for pancreatic cancer, the AP reports. Doctors gave her an encouraging prognosis after removing a small malignant tumor, but in a speech this weekend, Sen. Jim Bunning said Ginsburg would be dead within 9 months,... More »

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cancer • surgery • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • justice • pancreatic cancer • US Supreme Court • Jim Bunning • malignant tumor

Senator: Fire 'Socialist' Paulson

Ky.'s Bunning appears to have problem with Fannie/Freddie move

Sep 9, 08 5:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson saved Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but now he may have to worry about saving his own job: One Republican senator called his policies socialist and recommended that he and Fed chief Ben Bernanke resign, Bloomberg reports. “They have taken the free market out of... More »

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Ben Bernanke • Federal Reserve • Henry Paulson • Freddie Mac • Fannie Mae • Treasury Department • Jim Bunning • financial crisis

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