Tom Coburn

Tom Coburn Gets Big Penalty From Fellow Senators

AP | DONNA CASSATA | Posted 05.25.2012

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WASHINGTON — The Senate Ethics Committee admonished Republican Sen. Tom Coburn on Friday over his contact with a top aide to former Sen. John En...

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Coburn: RNC, DNC Should Return Taxpayers' Money For Conventions

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 05.17.2012

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WASHINGTON -- If politicians are so worked up over lavish conventions funded by taxpayers, the two major parties should give back more than $35 millio...

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RNC Mocks Government Conference Cap Backed By Republicans

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 05.14.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The Republican National Committee mocked an Obama administration plan to cap the costs of government conferences Monday, even though Rep...

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GOP Senator Blasts Colleagues In Blistering Takedown

Politico | Posted 04.17.2012

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Sen. Tom Coburn is leaving virtually no one unscathed in a blistering new book in which he accuses both parties of hypocrisy and failed leadership in ...

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Arms Down

John Feffer | Posted 04.10.2012

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We are in a dangerous zero-sum world in which a military reduction in the United States means a military increase somewhere else. To break out of this situation and create a virtuous circle of military reductions, we must pursue a three-prong strategy.

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White House 'Strongly Supports' Judicial Nominations Effort

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 03.14.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) picked up a ringing endorsement from the White House on Tuesday for trying to force Republica...

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An Open Letter to Republicans

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.06.2012

You guys and your radical extremist social views are the gift that keeps on giving. So keep it up! Keep all the God, gays and sex stuff coming. We love it.

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The Burr/Coburn Medicare Plan: 10 Deceptions - and a Free-Market "Death Panel"

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 04.17.2012

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Burr and Coburn want you to believe that they can raise the Medicare eligibility age, make you pay more in premiums, turn your health care over to the same insurers that are bankrupting you before you're sixty-five -- and that somehow you'll save money!

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GOP Senators Unveil Plan That Would Raise Medicare Eligibility Age

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 04.17.2012

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WASHINGTON — Two Republican senators unveiled a Medicare overhaul Thursday that features an accelerated transition to private health insurance f...

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With Gas Tax Money Vanishing, Transportation Bills Mum On What Comes Next

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 02.16.2012

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WASHINGTON -- As both chambers of Congress continued to debate dueling surface transportation bills on Wednesday, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) announ...

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Senate Clears Way For Debt Hike

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 03.27.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted Thursday to let the president raise the nation's debt limit by about $1.2 trillion, voting down a measure that would ha...

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Four Reasons GOP Lawmakers Aren't Backing Gingrich

Corbin Hiar | Posted 03.25.2012

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Why are GOP lawmakers so reluctant to support their former colleague? Here are a few of the likely reasons.

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Tom Coburn, Ignorance, And The Need For Scientific Communication

Jamil Zaki | Posted 03.11.2012

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The consensus as I've experienced as a researcher is that (1) ignorant political attacks will not affect our ability to get work done, and (2) it is not our job to help the public understand our work. I think both claims are wrong, and potentially dangerous to the future of science.

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Coburn: D.C. Pancake Restaurant Is Government Waste

The Huffington Post | Posted 12.21.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) released his annual "Wastebook" this week and singled out a District of Columbia IHOP restaurant as an example...

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Democrats for Newt!

Andy Ostroy | Posted 02.12.2012

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He's the quintessential conservative and, gosh darnit, he's been around so long he truly deserves this honor. And the party deserves him, as do Republican voters. I can't think of a more fitting nominee to lead this party of hypocritical crazies off a cliff.

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Peter King Goes Off On GOP Candidate

The Huffington Post | Paige Lavender | Posted 12.07.2011

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Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) blasted Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich on Tuesday, saying the former House Speaker is "too erratic." "He's ...

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Democratic Senator Says Payroll Tax Break Will Get Another Chance

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 12.04.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) said Sunday that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will offer a new plan to extend the payroll tax br...

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Newt Gingrich Not Winning Hearts Of His Fellow Lawmakers

Posted 12.01.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Even as he becomes the latest Republican presidential aspirant to revel in anti-Mitt Romney grandeur, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich...

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Report: Congress Guts Its Own Government Waste Watchdog

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 11.16.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Congress must have something against good advice that saves the government tens of billions of dollars every year, Sen. Tom Coburn sugge...

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Tom Coburn: Feds Pay Out Billions In 'Welfare For Well-Off'

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 11.14.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Millionaires are receiving billions in taxpayer-funded support every year that helps them pay for everything from child care to bad debt...

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GOP Senator Decries 'Welfare' For Millionaires

The Hill | Alexander Bolton | Posted 01.14.2012

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A leading Senate conservative is taking aim at tax breaks that he says amount to welfare for millionaires, a line of critique that usually comes from ...

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Problems Persist With Contractors Paid To Ferret Out Medicare Fraud

AP | KELLI KENNEDY | Posted 01.13.2012

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MIAMI — Contractors paid tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to detect fraudulent Medicare claims are using inaccurate and inconsistent data th...

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Supercommittee Making Little Progress, Lawmakers Warn

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 11.14.2011

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Democrats and Republicans on the congressional supercommittee tasked with finding at least $1.2 trillion in federal savings are still far apart on a n...

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Republicans Contend Obama Wants Super Committee To Fail

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 01.08.2012

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WASHINGTON -- In a sign of just how unlikely Congress' deficit-cutting super committee is to succeed, Republicans took the blame game to another level...

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'Adult Baby' Cleared Of Fraud, Demands Apology

Posted 12.21.2011

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When this man-baby is threatened, he doesn't cry -- he fights back. A fully grown man who wears diapers and sucks on a pacifier has been cleared o...

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