N.C. senator opposed unemployment benefit extension, citing impact on the federal deficit.
By Jim Morrill
jmorrill@charlotteobserver.com
Posted: Friday, Mar. 05, 2010
Democrats continued to lash out at Republican U.S. Sen. Richard Burr on Thursday for voting against extending unemployment benefits to 200,000 people, including 6,500 North Carolinians.

Burr voted with 18 other Senate Republicans against the extension. Among them was Sen. Jim Bunning of Kentucky, who set off a firestorm when he single-handedly blocked a vote on the measure for five days.

Bunning's action allowed some benefits to expire and led to furloughs...

March 04, 2010
The Rhinotimes.com

It's hard for me to believe that North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr has been in the Senate for over five years, but he must have been because he is up for reelection this year.

Burr was elected to the US House in 1994, so he has been working in Washington, DC, for 15 years. But he only works in Washington; unlike many of his colleagues he still lives in his home state. He's home in Winston-Salem, or to be found somewhere else in North Carolina, just about any time the Senate is not in session. He knows what's going on in North Carolina, not because somebody tells him about it but because he's here, living it....