WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — The two major-party candidates for U.S. Senate in North Carolina are trading accusations on legislation that would restore unemployment benefits to 2.5 million people.
Democratic challenger Secretary of State Elaine Marshall stood Tuesday outside the Winston-Salem office of Republican Sen. Richard Burr with unemployed residents to deliver a petition of 15,000 signatures. Marshall said Burr has been part of a partisan obstruction plan to delay extending the benefits.
The delay ended later Tuesday when the successor to the late West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd was sworn in to office, providing a key 60th vote so Democrats could move the bill ahead.
Burr said in a statement Democrats have rejected five times GOP proposals to pay for the benefits by cutting spending elsewhere in the federal government.
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