Senate votes unemployment benefits, highway funds
By News on Mar 2, 2010
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- 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....| « US may require accelerator override in new cars | Senate OKs jobless aid after Sen. Bunning relents » |

