Tom Coburn
Tom Coburn
Thomas Allen "Tom" Coburnis an American politician and medical doctor. A member of the Republican Party, he was the junior United States Senator from Oklahoma...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth14 March 1948
CityCasper, WY
CountryUnited States of America
issues brain favors
When we have heartbeat and brain waves, we refuse to accept it as the presence of life - this lack of logic of which we approach this issue because we like and we favor convenience over ethics. We favor convenience over the hard parts of life that actually make us grow.
believe issues faces
I firmly believe that the court should take another direction on many of these moral issues that face us.
real cutting issues
Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You didn't have a real partisan issue on those times that it was used
country thoughtful issues
The danger of what's happening right now in terms of using reconciliation is, the purpose of the Senate is going to be defeated. And that is to bring consensus to big issues in this country so that we have a reasoned and thoughtful approach and that the American public buys into it.
real issues our-society
It is a real issue, a measurement of our society, when we say it's fine to destroy unborn life who has a heartbeat at 16 days post-conception.
bias choosing create foreign good laws outside precedent relying selecting
Is relying on foreign precedent and selecting and choosing a foreign precedent to create a bias outside of the laws of this country, is that good behavior?
press
I won't press you on this issue, I know you can't answer,
priorities
It doesn't have much to do with Alaska, ... It has to do with priorities for our country.
certainly life presence
the presence of them certainly designates life and to say it otherwise, logically, is schizophrenic.
agency example inaccurate information latest misleading providing public risk
Today's misleading recommendations by the F.D.A. are the latest example where the agency has put the public at risk by providing inaccurate information about condoms,
again area looking mistake somebody
I am looking for somebody who is not going to make that mistake again in any other area of life,
believe dollars spend taxpayer
I believe that we should spend taxpayer dollars where they are most needed,
alliance forge moments policy
one of those once-in-a-decade moments where we can forge a left-right alliance on a policy issue.
ourselves
We find ourselves in significant difficulties as a nation,