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2,000 transportation workers idled over impasse (AP)

01 March, 2010 04:22:14 Yahoo World News
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FILE - In this July 29, 2009 file photo, Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky. takes part in a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Two thousand federal transportation workers will be furloughed without pay on Monday, and the Obama administration said they have the Kentucky senator to blame for it. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)AP - Jobless benefits suddenly ended for some laid-off workers, Medicare payments to doctors were delayed and 2,000 federal transportation workers were sent home Monday in a spending dispute tinged with election-year politics.


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