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Kuros
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 Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 7:44 pm Post subject: The Senate's 'Dr. No' |
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The Lonely Fight against Bureaucratic Excess and Duplicative Programs
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Since January 2007, Coburn has used his senatorial "hold" to block more than 80 pieces of legislation, which means Reid knows that Coburn will object to unanimous consent on those bills.
So instead of filing all those motions, Reid leaves it up to the legislation's sponsor to try to negotiate with Coburn. But the normal legislative give-and-take has no appeal to him. Coburn does not accept earmarks, the spending for pet projects that lawmakers insert into bills. And because of a self-imposed two-term limit, Coburn has no aspirations to become a committee chairman or party leader, so he does not need to do any favors for colleagues. |
A courageous figure. He refuses to simply pass popular programs without at least trying to get his colleagues to pause and reflect on them. |
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bacasper
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Good man, the Senate's version of the House's Dr. No, Ron Paul. Too bad Paul doesn't wield as much power in the House.
A real radical - eliminating duplicate programs! This should be standard procedure instead of exactly its opposite. |
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Leslie Cheswyck
Joined: 31 May 2003
Location: University of Western Chile
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| Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 9:59 pm Post subject: Re: The Senate's 'Dr. No' |
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| Kuros wrote: |
The Lonely Fight against Bureaucratic Excess and Duplicative Programs
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| Coburn has no aspirations to become a committee chairman or party leader, so he does not need to do any favors for colleagues... |
A courageous figure. He refuses to simply pass popular programs without at least trying to get his colleagues to pause and reflect on them. |
You mean a guy who actually believes in doing the job he's supposed to do? That is refreshing. I like hearing stuff like this. |
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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| Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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| After his term in the Senate is over, the Presidency next? |
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