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Coburn Amendment, on the floor — The Club for Growth blog is tracking the debate over the Coburn amendment that would cancel the Bridge to Nowhere and Don Young Way and use that $454 million for New Orleans reconstruction. — It's a pretty heated debate. Sen. Ted Stevens has threatened to resign if the amendment passes.
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Sen. Tom Coburn bravely representing the porkbusters on the Senate floor today. — The junior Senator from Oklahoma dropped a bombshell on the Senate floor today. He attempted to make sense. He has spent time looking at pork in the Transportation bill, looking for excesses that can be trimmed …
Mark Tapscott / tapscottscopydesk.blogspot.com:
Senate Overwhelmingly Rejects Three Coburn Anti-Pork Amendments — The U.S. Senate voted 86-13 against three anti-pork spending amendments offered by Sen. Tom Coburn, R-OK. The Coburn amendments would have repealed $500,000 previously authorized for a sculpture park in Seattle, Washington …
Andrew Roth / The Club For Growth:Senator Coburn Issues a Statement
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:THE SENATE HAS REJECTED THE COBURN AMENDMENTS: Mark Tapscott opines:
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National Review:
The Miers Support Team: Gloomy and Demoralized — Strategists working with the White House in support of the Supreme Court nomination of Harriet Miers are becoming increasingly demoralized and pessimistic about the nomination's prospects on Capitol Hill in the wake of Miers's meetings with several Republican and Democratic senators.
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Charles Babington / Washington Post:After the Home Run, a White House Balk?
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James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:Miers Asked to Provide More Detail on Questions
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The Moderate Voice, The Carpetbagger Report, Wonkette, ACSBlog, Campaign for the Supreme Court and PoliBlog
David Johnston / New York Times:
Cover-Up Issue Is Seen as Focus in Leak Inquiry — WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 - As he weighs whether to bring criminal charges in the C.I.A. leak case, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the special counsel, is focusing on whether Karl Rove, the senior White House adviser, and I. Lewis Libby Jr. …
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Murray Waas / nationaljournal.com:
Secret Service Records Prompted Key Miller Testimony — New York Times reporter Judith Miller told the federal grand jury in the CIA leak case that she might have met with I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby on June 23, 2003 only after prosecutors showed her Secret Service logs that indicated she and Libby …
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Warren Hoge / New York Times:
Syria Involved in Killing Lebanon's Ex-Premier, U.N. Report Says — UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 20 - The assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri of Lebanon was a carefully planned terrorist act organized by Syrian and Lebanese intelligence services, according to a United Nations report made public this evening.
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Hullabaloo:
Buying Into The Program — In a sane political world, Press The Meat this Sunday would be a very interesting show. This is because over the past couple of days it's become obvious that Karl Rove is selling the line that he found out about Plame from Libby and that Libby says that his source …
Crooks and Liars:
Exclusive John Amato interviews Lawrence O'Donnell — Exclusive: John Amato interviews Lawrence O'Donnell — Mr. O'Donnell was the first person to say that Karl Rove was Matt Cooper's source and he was kind enough to come on the blog to do an interview. He was very revealing to C&L …
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Associated Press:
Young introduces bill for disaster assistance bonds — FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) - The federal government could sell bonds to cover the cost of disaster recoveries under legislation introduced by U.S. Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska. — Young introduced the bill Tuesday and spoke in favor it on the floor of the House of Representatives.
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
NOT AS DUMB AS IT SOUNDED — Several pundits whom we respect, including Patterico and Michelle Malkin, were apoplectic today over one aspect of the questionnaire Harriet Miers filled out for the Senate Judiciary Committee. This was the offending paragraph; it was part of Miers's recounting …
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Captain's Quarters, Right Wing News, Discriminations, The Claremont Institute and Ace of Spades HQ
Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com:
Limbaugh Responds — David Limbaugh has devoted an entire Washington Times column to responding to two of my blog posts: The SCOTUS is Not a Patronage Appointment and Limbaugh's Wrong Again. (Heh.) In tone, Mr. Limbaugh's more temperate than I was in my posts, so I'll try to respond in kind.
Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
The Conservative Revolt — WHY have so many conservatives suddenly revolted against President Bush, nearly five years into his presidency? I think their split with Bush is ill advised, counterproductive, and in some ways childish. But there's no doubt it's happening and it's serious.
MaryKatharineHam:
Blogging from the Dom — I'm with the bloggers on bloggers' row at the Capitol today. We're setting up right now— so far so good. A very helpful IT guru named Jenni got us all up and running within just a few minutes. — So, right now, there's a mosaic-tile floor under my feet …
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