Senator Puts Hold On Vets' Caregiver Bill

Week of November 09, 2009

More than a month after a new fiscal year began Oct. 1, the House and Senate are still pressing to pass a group of bills to improve veterans' benefits and health programs, rolling them together in "omnibus" legislative packets. The omnibus bills can then be shaped by final compromises between the two chambers and passed relatively quickly, often by voice vote, so lawmakers can move on to other late, more politically sensitive business. Standing athwart those plans this month, however, is Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), a family physician whose top goal as a lawmaker has been to slow the rising tide of debt caused, he says, by colleagues who are willing to pass or spend whatever is necessary to assure their reelection. To learn more, read the full article on Military.com.

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