Supplemental Is Hit by Rare Move

Coburn Pulls ‘Clay Pigeon’ Trigger

By John Stanton
Roll Call Staff
April 27, 2006, 12 a.m.

Backed by a growing number of Republicans unhappy with skyrocketing federal spending, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) launched a broadside attack on members of the Appropriations Committee on Wednesday, using an obscure procedural motion to take control of the Senate debate over a $106.5 billion supplemental appropriation in hopes of forcing several days of politically difficult votes on 19 earmarks in the bill.



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