Coburn puts hold on civil rights cold cases bill.

This summer, “legislation to beef up investigations into unsolved murders from the civil rights era” passed the House by an overwhelming margin of 422-2. But the bill is being held up in the Senate, where Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) has put a hold on the bill because he believes that “its price tag of $13.5 million a year” is too much. Sens. Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) have vowed to continue pushing the legislation.