Tom Coburn
WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 04: U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) (2nd L) speaks to members of the media as (L-R) Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA), Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), and Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) listen June 4, 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The Senate Republicans had their weekly policy luncheon to discuss the Republican agenda.
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Nancy Scola: Obama, the “big data” president
trail. One of his legislative accomplishments during his brief time in the Senate was a bill co-authored with Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., that called for the creation of an online federal spending database. At the time, they called it “a significant tool that from Kansas.com Read more »
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Bad news: Gang of Eight mad at Rubio for demanding more border security
(supposedly he worked on it with Cornyn “for weeks”) to a presumably softer alternative amendment that he’s drafting with Tom Coburn. (That’s the one that’s coming next week, I take it.) That suggests that maybe the Gang really did pull him aside and have from Hot Air Read more »
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Teachers Prank Students For End-Of-Year Fun, Video Goes Viral
Tom Coburn sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder Thursday, demanding the Justice Department cut its spendin . . . Lawmakers and their aides are watching closely to see how Obamacare will affect their government-subsidized health insur . . . The House from NewsMax Read more »
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Strassel: Rebooting the Budget Talks
sides first admit there's a problem."This is all about forcing the reality of just how big the hole gets," says Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn, one of a dozen Republicans who met on Tuesday with White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough and other officials. If from Wall Street Journal Read more »
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Sen. Tom Coburn says DOJ wastes money on junkets while fearing furloughs
Tom Coburn says the Justice Department is sounding the alarm over sequester-related furloughs of its law enforcement agents in the coming year but spends millions on conferences, salaries and grants. In a letter to Attorney General Eric H. Holder, the Senate’s from Washington Times Blogs Read more »
