Porker Busted!
Ted Stevens is the secret hold. His staffer blames all the fuss on bloggers. Palm Beach Post
“Senator Stevens has always preferred to handle this at the staff level or member to member,” Saunders said. “He doesn’t like running to the blogosphere or the media.”
“Our reticence in getting out there is that Stevens doesn’t want to be in the media attacking Coburn,” Saunders said. “He has never addressed legislative concerns in the media. It is just not the way the senator has ever operated.”
Placing a hold is a normal part of doing business on Capitol Hill, Saunders said. He noted that Coburn has used the same parliamentary maneuver to block bills coming out of the Commerce Committee.
“Senator Stevens is not trying to show Senator Coburn or any other senator up publicly. Going to the blogs and the media with these concerns is not the way we have ever operated.”
The Senator failed to show for the vote in committee on S.2590 (the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act). So, basicly, he didn’t do his job, the one we pay him for, when he didn’t attend the committee vote, and then he puts a secret hold on a bill designed to make the operations of government far more transparent.
Tar and feathers. That would seem to be the order of the day.
Hat tip to Glenn Reynolds.
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