Coburn To Make Issue Of Budget Votes
For Tax Cut Bill, Senators Face Vote on Boosting Deficit
By Humberto Sanchez
Senators will likely face a separate vote on boosting the deficit in order to pass an $85 billion tax cut extenders bill, according to key Senate Republicans.
Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., a staunch opponent of the extenders bill, said he expects someone to raise a budget point of order.
“Somebody will,” Coburn said. “I defer to the Budget Committee, but if they don’t I will,” Coburn said.
“I will raise every order I can to try to get us to do the right thing as far as the American taxpayer and our kids” are concerned, he continued.
And could extenders be used as leverage to force House action on a Senate unemployment extension bill?