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Senate Votes Down Joint Investigation of Coconut Road Earmark

As expected, Democrats, with few exceptions, just united to defeat Sen. Tom Coburn's (R-OK) solution of creating a bicameral panel to investigate Rep. Don Young's (R-AK) Coconut Road earmark.

The final vote was 49 for and 43 against. That's far short of the 60 votes needed to pass.

Update: Here's the roll call for that vote.


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Heavens, why would we want to investigate a colleague?

did any of these clowns ever read the Constitution ???

each house shall be the judge of it's own members

for speech and debate, no member may be questioned in any other place

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