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May 25 2006

Coburn To Investigate Congressional Violations

Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn will chair a hearing on Thursday exploring why Congress has refused to follow its own budget rules.

   Congress could get taken to the woodshed on Thursday by Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn as he chairs a subcommittee hearing exploring why congress violates its own budget rules.
   "Congress is in a bad habit of setting its own spending limitations and rules and repeatedly breaking them," said Coburn in a press release from his office.
   He chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management.
   Coburn points out how since 1990, congress has misused budget rules related to emergency or supplemental spending in order to subvert annual budget caps.  The hearing will begin at mid-afternoon.

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