I almost missed this. It happens around 11am.
The Senate is going to vote on an amendment from Senator Tom Coburn. From an email friend:
The amendment would require the Senate to be honest about its ridiculous spending and post the full cost of all PAYGO violations online for taxpayers to see.
The Democrats have drafted a side-by-side amendment, to be voted on tomorrow as well. This vote is meant to give cover for members to vote against the Coburn amendment, and still be for “transparency.” Their amendment would simply require the Secretary of the Senate to post links on its website to the CBO cost estimates and other budgetary documents for legislation passed by the Senate. This amendment does not require a tally of total spending passed by the Senate exempted from PAYGO, and provides taxpayers with no new information not already available online. The only reason to oppose the Coburn amendment is to hide the truth about Congress’ inability to stop its out of control spending and keep its word to live under PAYGO.
UPDATE: It gets better. The Democrats are going to put up a vote after the Coburn amendment to waive PAYGO — a law they passed only four weeks ago.
Steve Maley
Moe Lane
Dan McLaughlin
Neil Stevens
Daniel Horowitz
Wow!
neoavatara (Diary) Tuesday, March 9th at 11:13AM EST (link)It is amazing. Every time I think the Dems can’t get dumber…they somehow do.
The only problem in November for us is that we have simply too much stuff to attack the Democrats on.
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Oh the irony
vamoose Tuesday, March 9th at 11:33AM EST (link)It took a vote by non-senator Paul Kirk to reinstate PAYGO. Now the Dems want to scrap it.
This should be shouted from every mountaintop
Kyle-MI (Diary) Tuesday, March 9th at 11:35AM EST (link)Every GOP politician should be hitting Dems and the MSM with this mercilessly. It is also smarter politically than what Sen. Bunning was (rightly) doing.
OK, unless I am struck dumber then usual,,,,
USNJIMRET (Diary) Tuesday, March 9th at 12:34PM EST (link)the Coburn amendment passed 100 to zero, even though I heard a couple of Senators vote “no” then apparently change their vote when it was clear it would pass.
Then Murray of Washington got up to ask for a waiver to Senate rules so a 1.3 billion dollar temp jobs program for teenagers this summer (you know, the ‘created’ jobs).
That amendment failed to get the required votes and failed.
So….
was this a good thing, Corburns amendment, followed by another good thing, Murrays waiver rejected?
Or what?