[img]http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100302/capt.73994d6171b341878d141c9b9cc6cd0b.budget_impasse_ny112.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=S_MFG6rXjwQm6c5HeXErWw--[/img]AP - The Senate on Tuesday passed a $10 billion measure to maintain unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless and provide stopgap funding for highway programs after a holdout Republican dropped stalling tactics that had generated a Washington firestorm.