Coburn Blocks Stopgap Spending Bill
Senate Democrats have failed to win the unanimous consent needed to speed floor debate on the fiscal 2013 spending package, which could delay consideration of the measure for some days.
Following a Tuesday lunch meeting between Senate Democrats and President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., told reporters that a familiar adversary, Oklahoma Republican Tom Coburn, would hold up the measure.
“I don’t know all the details, but in this new era of ‘let’s get along’ — all this cheering and yelling about this bipartisan bill — I just learned while I was in here with the president that — who else? — Coburn now won’t let us move to the bill,” Reid said. “So, unless something happens in that regard, we’re going to have to use the new rules we have that McConnell and I can move forward ourselves, or I’m going to have to file cloture.”
Coburn said he wanted to delay consideration until his staff and those of other Senate Republicans had a chance to read the bill.
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