Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Tom Coburn, dog in the Veterans manger
And a veterans bill that would increase benefits for those who have served is being held up in the Senate by Tom Coburn, a man who has not served his country in any positive way.
The senator holding up consideration of an omnibus veterans’ health bill doesn’t hate veterans and their families, but he does hate the idea of creating new benefits without paying for them, his spokesman says.Kindly old Dr Tom thinks that now that veterans have come home wounded and disabled in significant numbers we should be worrying about the cost.
Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., is using Senate rules to block a vote on S 1963, a major veterans bill, unless he has the chance to offer amendments to pay for the new benefits it creates, especially stipends, health benefits, counseling and other programs aimed at family caregivers of seriously wounded combat veterans.
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