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GOP Run Over in Game of Chicken

By Jessica Brady and Emily Pierce
Roll Call Staff
Nov. 5, 2009, Midnight

For nearly a month, Senate Democrats and Republicans have engaged in a high-stakes game of chicken over unemployment benefits in an effort to show that they are not going to be pushovers in Senate floor action.

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