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Coburn spokesman John Hart on Monday evening confirmed that the senator will seek to ensure that any additional funding for tornado disaster relief in Oklahoma be offset by cuts to federal spending elsewhere in the budget. "That's always been his position [to offset disaster aid]," Hart said. "He supported offsets to the bill funding the OKC bombing recovery effort."

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Senior Democratic Sen. Max Baucus, who recently slapped Obamacare as a "train wreck," believes that the IRS scandal is just beginning and that "a lot more" damaging information will be revealed, likely at congressional hearings.

"I have a hunch that a lot more is going to come out, frankly," Baucus, whose pending retirement seems to have freed him up to speak bluntly, told Bloomberg Government's "Capitol Gains" TV show.

"It's broader than the current focus. And I think it's important that we have the hearings, and I think that will encourage other information to come out that has not yet come out. I suspect that we will learn more in the nxt several days, maybe the next couple three weeks which adds more context to all of this," added Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee

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CNN's Jake Tapper is out with a report that offers significant pushback to reports last week from ABC's Jon Karl and the Weekly Standard's Stephen Hayes.

Tapper obtained an email from then-Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes, who is a top aide to President Barack Obama. Tapper's report says that the email "differs from how sources were inaccurately quoted and paraphrased in previous media accounts," pointing to the ABC and Weekly Standard reports.

Here is the key part of the actual email obtained by Tapper:

"There is a ton of wrong information getting out into the public domain from Congress and people who are not particularly informed. Insofar as we have firmed up assessments that don’t compromise intel or the investigation, we need to have the capability to correct the record, as there are significant policy and messaging ramifications that would flow from a hardened mis-impression."

According to Tapper, the ABC and Weekly Standard reports "seemingly invent the notion that Rhodes wanted the concerns of the State Department specifically addressed."

Here's ABC's version of the email, which its reporter, Karl, now says was paraphrased from a source who viewed the original emails and shared detailed notes. He had written in his original report that he "reviewed White House emails":

"We must make sure that the talking points reflect all agency equities, including those of the State Department, and we don’t want to undermine the FBI investigation. We thus will work through the talking points tomorrow morning at the Deputies Committee meeting."

In the second version, there is clearly an insertion of a specific reference to the State Department.

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THE COST TO GRANT legal status to America's 11 million illegal immigrants — allowing them to tap into government's vast array of social benefits and services, including already stressed programs like Social Security and Medicare — could top $6.3 trillion, according to a study by the Heritage Foundation obtained in advance by Fox News.

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Mrs. Colbert Busch also joins a growing chorus of Democrats who are backing away from the law now that its enormous costs and implementation problems are becoming more obvious. Montana Democrat Max Baucus used a recent Senate hearing to worry that ObamaCare was looking to be a "train wreck." West Virginia Democratic Sen. Jay Rockefeller pronounced that ObamaCare is "so complicated" that "if it isn't done right the first time, it will just simply get worse." The most recent Kaiser Health Tracking Poll confirmed that the law has been plummeting in the public's opinion. Just 35% of Americans today view ObamaCare "favorably" or "somewhat favorably," down eight points since Election Day and its lowest level of support since it was passed.

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