Senate debating if Coburn can continue to be a doctor as well as a senator

[Mass]

Incredibly, this is what they have been talking about for the last half hour. I guess nothing more urgent needs to be dealt with.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Would that go for Frist, too?

Or can he continue to diagnose people by videotape while serving (if you want to call it that) in the Senate?

[Pirate Smile]

2. Why did this come up now?

[Mass]

5. I think that Coburn had until the end of this year to stop medecine

and the Ethics Committee disagreed, so Coburn offered an amendment to the tax bill.

They just called for the AYES AND NAYS

[tanyev]

3. He's not doing either job very well.

How about a nice hamburger manufacturing job?

[Crunchy Frog]

4. You mean they might want him to stop

performing non-consenting sterilizations on underage girls while he's serving in the Senate? What kind of family values is that?

[hopein08]

6. kick....what happened with the ayes and nays?

[Mass]

7. It was rejected.

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00335

(roll call not yet in, but will be there).

[dsc]

8. I am no fan of Coburn's

but I must say that he should be able to do that. I fail to see why that would be a conflict.