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Veterans and supporters ask Coburn to drop hold on bill
tulsaworld.com - 23 days ago
Veterans and supporters ask Coburn to drop hold on bill
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Published: 11/7/2009 2:25 AM Last Modified: 11/7/2009 5:02 AM WASHINGTON Veterans and their supporters called on U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn on Friday to drop his hold and allow a vote on a bill to offer assistance and improve benefits to wounded veterans and their caregivers. The Oklahoma Republican ...
marinecorpstimes.com - 26 days ago
Coburn named as senator holding up vets bill
— marinecorpstimes.com — Thirteen major military and veterans groups have joined forces to try to force one senator — Republican... Tom Coburn of Oklahoma — to release a hold that he has placed on a major veterans benefits bill. Coburn has been identified by Senate aides as the ... (more) Coburn named as senator holding up vets bill

Comments vote down AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth found this 26 days agofound this
Coburn plans to read the bill …
hotair.com - 23 days ago
Coburn plans to read the bill …
— hotair.com — Oklahoma’s Tom Coburn is an old-school conservative, and an old-school Senator. How traditional can Dr. [...] Read... the rest » (more) Coburn plans to read the bill …

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politico.com - 23 days ago
Coburn threatening to have bill read on Senate floor
— politico.com — November 06, 2009 Coburn threatening to have bill read on Senate floor Sen. Tom Coburn, the Oklahoma... Republican who developed a close friendship with President Obama when they served together in the Senate, is threatening to have the entire health ... (more) Coburn threatening to have bill read on Senate floor

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Desert Beacon:  The Republican Party of Filibuster, Hold, Bait and Switch

RedState: Conservative News and Community:  Doctor No, health care rationing, and unanimous consent.

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The Republican Party of Filibuster, Hold, Bait and Switch
Desert Beacon — It takes two to tango. It takes two to be bipartisan. There is no indication the Republican Party members in Congress have any intention of cooperating with much of anything. Some examples: #1. Filibuster delays on the extension of unemployment benefits, business tax credits, and housing tax credit bill: Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) on Senate delays with regard to the extension of unemployment benefits: “Mr. President, what I just read is a short way of saying we wasted another day. With all the work we have to do, we stood and looked at each other ...

Doctor No, health care rationing, and unanimous consent.
RedState: Conservative News and Community — (H/T: Big Government) Senator Tom Coburn is living up to his nickname: Sen. Tom Coburn, the Oklahoma Republican who developed a close friendship with President Obama when they served together in the Senate, is threatening to have the entire health care bill read on the Senate floor. Senior Senate Democratic aides had heard Coburn was considering having potentially thousands of pages read aloud in effort to stall passage. “If he did this it would be even outrageous for a guy who’s become known as Dr. No around here,” one of them told POLITICO. Good luck on getting Coburn to back down on this: we’re talking about a guy who ...

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Coburn places hold on veterans benefits bill.
thinkprogress.org 25 days ago — One of the Senate’s most vociferous opponents of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) has been Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), who called the stimulus “the worst act of generational theft in our nation’s history .” Today, ...
GOP's Coburn "is denying veterans many benefits and services” — AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth
We'll hear a lot of speeches about veterans and their service to our nation today. But, any Republican Senator who speaks today should be ashamed. Their colleague, Tom Coburn (OK) is still blocking a bill to aid vets. At the end of last week, Senator Akaka laid down the gauntlet : Speaking ...
Sen. Tom Coburn stands by effort to delay bill for disabled vets — Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News
Source: [b]newsOK[/b] WASHINGTON — Sen. Tom Coburn continued Monday to block a bill providing new health care services for veterans, despite strong backing of the bill from veterans two days before the national holiday in their honor. Coburn, who is single-handedly preventing the bill ...
Senator Coburn Arrives Unexpectedly, Sits Front Row At Press Conference Dedicated To Bashing Him — Pat Dollard | Young Americans
Democrat Senate: Democratic Senators Daniel Akaka, Jon Tester and Mark Begich held a press conference today calling on Republican Senator Tom Coburn to release his hold on a veterans’ health bill. The bill offers assistance and improves benefits to wounded veterans and their ...
Senators call on Coburn to lift his hold on veterans benefits bill. — Think Progress
Earlier this month, it was revealed that Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) has placed a hold on a major veterans benefits bill because he wants to use unspent stimulus dollars to fund it. Today, Democratic senators who are advocates of the bill will hold a press conference to highlight Coburn’s ...
Coburn Single-Handedly Delaying Veterans’ Benefits — Matthew Yglesias
More fun with Senate procedure : Veterans and their supporters called on U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., on Friday to drop his hold and allow a vote to be held on a bill to offer assistance and improve benefits to wounded veterans and their caregivers. Without identifying Coburn by name, ...
Tom Coburn places hold on veterans benefits bill — The Political Carnival
By GottaLaff Nothing says Support the Troops/Vets like obstruction: It turns out [Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK)] has been the senator who has placed holds on several veterans benefits bills because he wanted to divert money from unspent ARRA funds them: Thirteen major military and veterans ...