CHILDREN BEFORE PORK: I got an email from Tom Coburn’s office about his proposed Amendment 3358, which prioritizes health care for children over pork:

This amendment, “The Children’s Health Care First Act,” simply states that none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used for any congressionally directed spending item, or earmark, until the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services certifies that all children under the age of 18 years of age in the United States are insured by a private or public health care insurance plan.

Heh.

UPDATE: The full item is now online.