mydd.com - 1/13/2009
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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 time, the bill (which contains many land ...
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/12/2009
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Harry Reid and Dick Durbin have just released
a statement confirming that Roland Buriss' appointment to the...
Senate now meets all legal requirements, and he will be seated in an orderly fashion later this week. Full statement after the jump. "The ...
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Senate Dems Will Seat Burris
briefingroom.thehill.com - 1/14/2009
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briefingroom.thehill.com —
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) followed through on his
bet with Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) over college football's...
national title game by singing Elton John's "Rocket Man" at one of Nelson's constituent coffees on Wednesday. Nelson won the bet after the ...
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Coburn Sings 'Rocket Man' for Nelson
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Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC), on Republican defections on Sunday's "Tomnibus" vote… "If my colleagues on my side continue to accept this, there's going to be no such thing as a Republican Party." I can accept that. Hat tip to Josh Orton.
Tom Coburn gets rolled with the "Tomnibus" bill
Crooks and Liars —
... the objections of Senator Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma, to push forward a public lands bill.
On a vote of 66-12, the Senate agreed to take up a package of 160 different bills joined under an umbrella measure. The package has been dubbed a Tomnibus since the whole idea is to merge multiple proposals opposed by Mr. Coburn -– a physician known in the Senate as Dr. No. — and win passage all at once. Fifty-nine votes was the threshold...read on.
Josh Orton writes:
While the Roland Burris fiasco has dominated early ...
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