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Senator Lists Wasteful Provisions of Stimulus Bill

February 4th, 2009 · No Comments

In a post published yesterday on his web site, Sen. Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-Okla.) lists nearly three-dozen “wasteful and non-stimulus spending provisions” in the deeply-flawed Senate stimulus bill.  Those provisions appear below:
• $2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois that the Dept. of Energy defunded last year because [...]

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Coburn Offers Fixes for ‘Generational Theft Act’

February 4th, 2009 · No Comments

Sen. Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-Okla.) yesterday began offering amendments to the deeply-flawed Senate stimulus bill in an effort to improve the bill and ensure that taxpayer dollars will go to solutions will stimulate economic growth.  His list of amendments includes the following:
1. Require that all money in the bill given to states be a loan [...]

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Report Highlights Worst Waste of 2008

December 12th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Sen. Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Senate Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, today released the oversight report, “2008: Worst Waste of the Year.”
The look back on 2008 features absurd federal spending from beltway bureaucrats and elected officials.
“As we look back on federal spending for 2008, American taxpayers will laugh, and then cry [...]

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Senator Coburn Offers Wise Post-Election Counsel

November 5th, 2008 · 4 Comments

In my ‘Tuesday Evening Quarterback’ post yesterday, I shared my belief that American conservatives, perhaps, would have preferred someone more like Ronald Reagan to be their team’s starting quarterback (i.e., presidential nominee) and mentioned Sen. Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-Okla.) as a worthwhile choice.  Today, Senator Coburn released the following statement regarding last night’s election results [...]

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‘Tuesday Evening Quarterback’ Critiques Election

November 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Call me a “Tuesday Evening Quarterback,” but a review of tonight’s election results show the Republican Party team entered its most-important contest ever with little fan support, a poor game plan and the wrong signal caller lined up behind center.
Team GOP’s shortcomings began with the recruiting process.  When loyal fans on the right side of [...]

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