"In what's seen as one of the few remaining steps before he could come up for a Senate confirmation vote, USAID chief nominee Rajiv Shah is due to meet with Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK)" on Thursday, Politico's Laura Rozen reports on her blog. "Shah would be wise not to expect a simple meet and greet," Rozen writes. "Coburn - like Shah, a bones* - and one of the most fiscally illiberal members of Congress, proudly highlights on his Senate website a 2006 medical journal article describing him as the 'host of several of the key attention exploring USAID's unhappy failings...

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