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Coburn pushes Coconut Road probe
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News Date | Monday, April 14, 2008 02:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | By Susan Crabtree
Posted: 04/11/08 05:57 PM [ET]
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) plans to pursue an investigation into the notorious $10 million Coconut Road earmark by offering an amendment next week to a massive bill making technical corrections to the 2005 transportation bill.
The amendment would create a special joint committee to review how the earmark was changed to develop the Coconut Road interchange, and what role Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) and his staff may have played. The Senate is expected to consider the technical corrections bill on Tuesday.
Language in the 2005 highway bill initially authorized $10 million only for “widening and improvements” for I-75, but was mysteriously changed to build up Coconut Road after Congress approved the bill but before it reached President Bush’s desk. One of Young’s campaign contributors, Daniel Aronoff, is a developer who owns 4,000 acres along Coconut Road.
"It’s an unprecedented abuse of power,” said Coburn spokesman John Hart. “The Coconut Road issue undermines the integrity of the entire legislative process.” |
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