The Oklahoma Hold Out is in its 208th hour.
The sit-in outside of Senator Tom Coburn’s office is drawing attention to Coburn’s hold on legislation to promote humanitarian and diplomatic relief to the onslaught of the Lord’s Resistance Army, a group of religious zealots who have unleashed brutal violence in Uganda and bordering countries. By declaring this hold, Coburn has stopped the legislation in its tracks despite its support by two-thirds of the Senate.
Coburn claims that his hold is all about budgetary discipline. But then bill sponsor Russ Feingold called his bluff, declaring that he would alter the legislation to stipulate the use of no new federal funds for the project. Coburn’s maintaining his hold… why?
This is the same Tom Coburn who voted for billions of dollars in oil subsidies in 2007.
Call Tom Coburn at 202-224-5754 and give him what for.
