Senator Tom Coburn holding up Veterans benefits bill

[BirminghamExaminer]

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Senator Tom Coburn (R), Okahoma, the same Tom Coburn who advised Senator John Ensign to end the affair he was having by paying off the husband of his mistress, is the single senator in the US holding up a Veterans benefit bill that would aid health care givers of veterans returning home after fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

According to The Marine Times, Coburn is using an informal but legal practice of putting a bill on hold to prevent consideration of S 1963, the Veterans' Caregiver and Omnibus Health Benefits Act of 2009.

When asked by reporters why he was putting a hold on the veterans benefit bill, Coburn said he opposed the bill because he doesn't know how the bill will be funded. When a reporter pointed out to him that he had voted for funding for the Afghanistan and Iraq wars amounting to trillions of dollars, Coburn excused himself by saying that he did that the first year he was in the Senate. He went on to say he only voted for funding for the war one time. Coburn seems to have forgotten that he voted for funding for the wars again in 2006.

[annabanana]

1. This *holding up* of bills by SINGLE Senators has got to stop.

Whtever convention, or tradition allows this has GOT to be revisited.

[classysassy]

2. Doc Coburn

should give up his cushy job in the senate and return to ok and treat patients,I am sure he a a much better doctor than a senator.