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Senate to take up unemployment insurance extension (AP)

AP – Legislation extending unemployment insurance for the long-term jobless faces a key test vote in the Senate, its momentum helped by about 60 popular tax breaks for individuals and businesses that expired at the end of last year.

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Senate returns to business tax break measure (AP)

Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky. heads for the weekly caucus lunch on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 2, 2010. Bunning has again blocked the U.S. Senate from extending unemployment benefits and health insurance subsidies for the jobless.  (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP – After buying time by resolving an impasse over jobless benefits and other programs that had briefly lapsed, the Senate is returning to a $100 billion-plus bill reviving popular tax breaks and extending longer and more generous jobless benefits through the end of the year.


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Senate votes unemployment benefits, highway funds (AP)

FILE - In a Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009 file photo, Sen. Jim Bunning, R-KY., listens during a Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs executive session on Capitol Hill in Washington. Bunning on Tuesday, March 2, 2010 again blocked the Senate from extending unemployment benefits and health insurance subsidies for the jobless. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)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.


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Senate GOP leader says budget impasse to end soon (AP)

Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky. heads for the weekly caucus lunch on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 2, 2010. Bunning has again blocked the U.S. Senate from extending unemployment benefits and health insurance subsidies for the jobless.  (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP – With a Senate impasse causing federal furloughs and threatening the unemployment benefits of thousands, the top Republican on Tuesday predicted quick passage of a stopgap measure to extend help for the unemployed and keep federal highway dollars flowing.


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Senate talks close in on deal for Wall Street regs (AP)

The Wall Street street sign is seen outside the New York Stock Exchange in a file photo. REUTERS/Shannon StapletonAP – More than a year after Lehman Brothers’ collapse set off a financial panic, Senate negotiators appear close to resolving a narrow dispute that was holding up broad legislation to set new rules for Wall Street.


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Senate panel to review Toyota recalls (AP)

A Toyota Motors Tsutsumi factory worker assembles a Prius hybrid vehicle in Toyota City, Aichi prefecture. Japan's jobless rate slipped back below five percent in January, data has shown, but the government voiced concern that Toyota's recall crisis and deflation could threaten the export-led recovery.(AFP/File/Toshifumi Kitamura)AP – Toyota Motor Corp. faces more questions from Congress over its troubled safety record when top company officials testify Tuesday at a Senate hearing on the automaker’s huge worldwide recall of 8.5 million vehicles.


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Harold Ford to announce he will not run for U.S. Senate seat against Kirsten Gillibrand

Former Tennessee Rep. Harold Ford told a top New York Democrat Monday he has decided not to mount a primary challenge against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

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