So (R) Tom Coburn was able to completely stop a vote for veterans health care

[Maraya1969]

i.e. Mental health to help veterans stop committing suicide.

He did this by himself. HOW?

Seriously, I do not understand how.

[elleng]

1. 'Coburn objected to a motion to allow a vote on the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention Act,

which requires annual outside reviews of suicide prevention efforts run by the Defense and Veterans Affairs Departments.

Coburn says the bill, estimated to cost $22 million over five years, creates a duplicative program by giving the VA authority it already has to offer financial incentives to help hire mental health specialists.

“It throws money and it doesn’t solve the real problem,” Coburn said Monday night in an emotional speech annoucning his objection, during which recounted his experience as a doctor“failing” patients who later committed suicide.

“I object to this bill not because I don’t want to help save suicide, but because I don’t think it will do the first thing to change what has happened,” Coburn said.

He urged senators to instead devote attention to more aggressively overseeing the VA.

Coburn’s objection looks set to stop passage of the bill this year. That’s because overcoming it would take several days under procedural rules, and Senate is set to recess for the year as soon as Tuesday.'

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dc/coburn-blocks-bill-fight-veteran-suicides-blog-entry-1.2046441

[enough]

3. Thanks for the link elleng. (nt)

[elleng]

5. You're quite welcome.

Quite enough!

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. WTF? Are they all about the stupid?

I object to this bill not because I don't want to help save suicide, but because I don't think it will do the first thing to change what has happened," Coburn said


help save suicide????:


Does he mean prevent suicide and he thinks this bill won't do that?

[elleng]

6. Yes, they are.

[niyad]

2. called a senate hold

Senate hold

In the United States Senate, a hold is a parliamentary procedure permitted by the Standing Rules of the United States Senate which allows one or more Senators to prevent a motion from reaching a vote on the Senate floor.

If the Senator provides notice privately to his or her party leadership of their intent (and the party leadership agreed), then the hold is known as a secret or anonymous hold. If the Senator actually objects on the Senate floor or the hold is publicly revealed, then the hold is more generally known as a Senatorial hold.

[Maraya1969]

8. Thanks for explaining that. So could one person stop this country from going to war if that person

is a member of our senate? Could they just refuse to let the bill onto the floor?

[PoliticAverse]

9. Holds, like filibusters, can be overridden by cloture motions which require 60+ votes. n/t

[Downwinder]

7. Support the Troops.

But, maybe they will kill themselves and we won't have to.

[Cha]

10. I wish Vets and their family and friends and we Activists would bombard Tom Coburn with

questions of why he would pull this despicable Block for our Vets' Health Care.

https://www.facebook.com/teamcoburn

http://www.contactsenators.com/oklahoma/tom-coburn

Mahalo Maraya