The momentum has stalled in the U.S. Senate behind a food safety bill that was fueled by the recall of more than half a million tainted eggs over the summer.
Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., said this morning he is shelving the legislation at least temporarily, and blamed Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., for the impasse.
Coburn had served notice he would block the bill on the grounds it is not offset by cuts elsewhere, and so would increase the federal budget deficit.
"If this was a priority for the majority, they would have already paid for it," Coburn's spokesman John Hart told Politico. Coburn says the legislation will cost more than $1.6 billion over five years.
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