Stevens Bridge is falling down, falling down (Updated: Confession) Contributed by Bill Faith
Coburn: Stevens Blocked My Bill
Twelve days ago, at a town meeting in Sallisaw, Oklahoma, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) accused Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) of obstructing his porkbuster-database bill with an anonymous hold.
That's to an Aug. 18 article in the Fort Smith (Ark.) Times Record:
One of the senators most criticized for his personal projects, Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, has a hold of his own on Coburn’s bill to make public the spending patterns of the government. Called the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, the legislation calls for the creation of a database open to the public where citizens can track government spending.
“He’s the only senator blocking it,” Coburn said of Stevens.
Coburn's office was not available for comment this evening.
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"MASKED" BILL-BLOCKER REVEALS SELF
A spokesman for Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) just confirmed his boss was the man behind the secret hold on the Coburn/Obama spending database bill, which has a segment of the political blogging community in recent days.
"Sen. Stevens does have a hold on the bill," said the spokesman, ...
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Contributed by Bill Faith on August 30, 2006 at 12:27 PM in , |