For your enjoyment and edification, we’ve compiled all the bills in the Coburn Omnibus, which is scheduled for debate this week, and provided you a cost estimate.
As you probably know, every bill page on the WashingtonWatch.com Web site has an unscientific poll of what visitors think of bills. So, below we’ve collected the votes on [...]
The Congressional Budget Office came out with a cost estimate today for S. 3297, the Advancing America’s Priorities Act, which has also been called the “Coburn Omnibus.” It combines 36 pieces of federal legislation into one.
Yesterday, adding up all the pieces of the Coburn Omnibus, we came up with about $65 per U.S. family. [...]
Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma didn’t come to Washington, D.C. to grow the government.
A long time critic of federal spending and power, he has made prolific use of “holds” to prevent legislation he doesn’t like from moving forward.
Now Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has reached his wit’s end. [...]