Pryor puts hold on all Treasury nominees

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: The Hill

Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) announced Wednesday he is putting a hold on all Treasury Department nominees until the administration backs down in a dispute over Federal Emergency Management Agency funds.

The confrontational maneuver is rare for Pryor, a low-key lawmaker who usually pursues consensus and eschews solitary floor crusades.

But Pryor has thrown down the gauntlet over tens of thousands of dollars in flood relief funds that FEMA and the Treasury Department have tried to collect from families in his home state.

FEMA has asked the Guglielmana family in Mountain View, Ark., to repay $27,000 in flood relief it received in error a few years ago. With fines and interest, the federal bill has accrued to $37,000, according to Pryor.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/188469-pryor-puts-hold-on-all-treasury-department-nominees

[ret5hd]

1. Was it error or fraud? (honest question)

[yurbud]

2. a noble move but with an UNdemocratic tool--those individual holds, like the easy filibuster must go

[classysassy]

3. Democracy my ass

when one person has the power to stop the wishes of the majority,that outdated law need to be repealed.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

5. +1000

[jmowreader]

4. Dear Senator Pryor:

I could use $27,000 given to me in error by the federal government. I don't care what agency it comes from--FEMA, the FDA, the Marines, anyone.

If I can't have $27,000 in undeserved federal dollars, why should the Guglielmanas get it?