Reid: Extended session more likely

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Tuesday he expects Congress will likely extend this month’s session or come back for a lame-duck session in order to finish its work. 

{mosads}In morning comments on the chamber floor, Reid said, "It looks like more every day that the Senate is going to have to return after this weekend." The Senate is juggling a Wall Street bailout bill as well as a continuing resolution to fund the federal government, among several other measures.

Reid specifically mentioned the debate over an omnibus of 34 bills that is being blocked by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.).

Coburn objects to the bills, criticizing some as excessive federal spending and others for moving through the chamber too quickly. Reid on Tuesday suggested Republicans were using Coburn as a "foil" and that the entire GOP caucus deserves blame for the delay.

"Sen. Coburn may be the person that made the objection, but we've attempted to move forward on this and he has been joined by his Republican colleagues," Reid said.