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Coburn Puts Hold on Legislation to Repay Furloughed Federal Workers

By John Stanton
Roll Call Staff
March 12, 2010, 1:40 p.m.

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has put a hold on legislation to provide back pay to thousands of federal workers furloughed earlier this month by Sen. Jim Bunning’s (R-Ky.) filibuster of an unemployment bill.

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