So the Senate has voted to require the Justice Department to investigate how Rep. Don Young’s (R-AK) earmark came to be changed after the bill passed both houses of Congress. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), who was pushing a competing solution (an eight-member bicameral committee), says that sets “the troubling and bizarre precedent of turning the Attorney General into the de facto Senate and House Parliamentarian.”
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=177333