Fiscal responsibility takes first steps

Is Burr involved in this coalition??? If not, then he needs to be...

BY ROBERT NOVAK
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST

The Senate was up to its old tricks Monday evening. It prepared to pass, without debate and under a procedure requiring unanimous consent, a federal infusion of $9 billion into state Medicaid programs under the pretext of Katrina relief. The bill, drafted in secret under bipartisan auspices, was stopped cold when Republican Sen. John Ensign voiced his objection.