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politico.com - 1/12/2009
Reid wins in latest tangle with Coburn
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"This is the greatest choke-hold body in the world," Coburn said on the Senate floor.
mydd.com - 1/13/2009
: With Bigger Numbers, Senate Dems Roll Coburn
— mydd.com — Way back in July of last year , Senate Dems finally tired of Oklahoma Republican Senator Tom... Coburn's use of "holds" to block legislation, so they bundled all the bills up into one package dubbed the "Tomnibus." With only a 1-seat Dem advantage at the ... (more) : With Bigger Numbers, Senate Dems Roll Coburn

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This Week in Congress
Daily Kos — ... Again, not much help from the Senate calendar, but that's life. Word is that after wrapping up the public lands bill, the Senate will move to deal with the fair pay bills passed by the House last week (H.R. 11 and H.R. 12). If Coburn wants to continue to make trouble (as he says he does), he can wait out the 30 post-cloture hours until Monday evening, and then move into trying to filibuster the underlying bill itself. Even if a cloture vote goes the way the first one did, he eats up much of the week. Reid will have to file for cloture on the bill, wait two days, and then call up ...

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