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Thursday, December 29, 2005
Scalito distraction
The Senate will take up the nomination of Samuel Alito next month. That's important business, but let's not let it distract us from this:
One of the most unreasonable deals in the jumble of unreasonable congressional decisions made last week was stripping an additional $2 billion in low-income heating assistance from budget legislation to win passage in the fractious U.S. Senate. In the horse-trading, Sen. Norm Coleman of Minnesota and two other cold-weather-state Republicans, Maine's Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, were promised a vote next month on supplemental Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program money. Better late than never, but it is obvious that even if the additional LIHEAP money is appropriated, the lag time in the midst of winter will mean hardships for the poor.
...And Congress can make supplemental heating aid a clean, targeted law that helps real people with the real crisis of crushing energy costs.
Sen. Smilin' Norm Coleman traded his vote for a promise from the Republican leadership (again). It's important that Coleman hold his leadership accountable so that the neediest among us can heat their homes this winter.
