Senate committee approves Sen. Tom Coburn's bill for earmark database
WASHINGTON — A Senate committee on Wednesday approved a bill by Sen. Tom Coburn that would establish a simple, online source for tracking lawmakers' pet projects.
The legislation got bipartisan support and, according to Coburn, responds to President Barack Obama 's call for a single, searchable database for congressional earmarks.
Coburn, R-Muskogee, and Obama, when he was a U.S. senator, wrote legisl...
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