{"id":7340,"date":"2010-11-15T12:25:14","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T19:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/?p=7340"},"modified":"2010-11-15T12:25:14","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T19:25:14","slug":"coburn-to-force-vote-on-earmark-moratorium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/coburn-to-force-vote-on-earmark-moratorium\/","title":{"rendered":"Coburn to Force Vote on Earmark Moratorium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(NN&#038;V Staff)<\/em> \u2013 U.S. Senator Tom Coburn today announced his intention to force the U.S. Senate to hold a public vote on an earmark moratorium on the first legislative vehicle to move through the chamber. Such a vote could happen as early as Wednesday when the Senate is scheduled to vote on a motion to proceed to food safety legislation.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe American people have sent a clear message that it is time for this body to make hard choices and live within our means.  Imposing a moratorium on earmarks is an important step that will \u2013 as a matter of symbol and substance \u2013 begin a new era of sobriety in Washington,\u201d Dr. Coburn said. \u201cPresident Obama, the debt commission and the American people \u2013 by a 2 to 1 margin \u2013 all agree it is time to end this practice.  America did just fine for 200 years without earmarks and Congress will do just fine without them as we begin the hard work of putting our nation on a sustainable path.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy moving to the food safety bill Senator Reid is picking up where he left off before the election \u2013 growing the size and scope of government and saddling our grandchildren with more debt.  But the American people have repudiated Washington\u2019s business as usual practices and are demanding fiscal responsibility,\u201d Dr. Coburn said.  \u201cSenator Reid will have an important choice between holding a transparent vote on earmarks and obstructing the American people\u2019s desire for fiscal sanity.  Nothing is more relevant or germane than beginning the hard work of getting our fiscal house in order.  No bill should move before Senators vote on this matter, particularly a bill that continues the borrow-and-spend status quo voters rejected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRepublicans have the chance to lead by example and agree to an earmark moratorium within the GOP conference.  Our vote should be public but if it is secret, I would respectfully tell my Republican colleagues that they won\u2019t have the option of keeping their votes a secret.  The American people simply won\u2019t accept \u2018no comment\u2019 for an answer and will ask hard questions of anyone who\u2019s private and public votes don\u2019t appear to line up,\u201d Dr. Coburn said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(NN&#038;V Staff) \u2013 U.S. Senator Tom Coburn today announced his intention to force the U.S. Senate to hold a public vote on an earmark moratorium on the first legislative vehicle to move through the chamber. Such a vote could happen as early as Wednesday when the Senate is scheduled to vote on a motion to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7341,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7340\/revisions\/7341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}