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Bunning’s a no-show in new Congress
washington kentucky sen. jim bunning’s want during the busy first week of the 111th congress has raised questions nearly the 77-year-antediluvian secondary senator’s viability as a candidate for re-election in 2010. so far this month, bunning, who sits on senate’s finance, puissance and natural resources and banking committees, missed three cabinet confirmation hearings and a gop strategy session on president-elect barack obama’s financial stimulus parcel. he’s also missed critical votes on releasing the second portion of the $700 billion federal bailout on the nation’s troubled financial sector a measure bunning has staunchly opposed. bunning’s congressional staffers attribute his absences to family commitments and declined to discuss just where the senator has been concerning the better part of a month. he did not return a call for comment. but bunning’s department did issue a statement saying bunning is close to to take on whoever the democratic litigant fields as a possibility next year. the 2010 plebiscite “may be a little more problematic for him,” said donald gross, a political system professor at the university of kentucky. “one of the problems he had in the election last time was a perception of whether he was becoming less competent than he was in previous years.”
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