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
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The Pentagon can't even audit its own books. It doesn't even know where its money is going. And we refuse to have the tough forces go on the Pentagon so that at least they are efficient with the money they're spending.
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In the state of Washington alone there are 17,590 homeless people and we're going to take money ... to build a sculpture park? I think not, ... I think that's not the right priority.
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Tactics and strategies ought to be based on what the real world is, and we do not have the political power to do this. We're not about to shut the government down over the fact that we cannot, only controlling one house of Congress, tell the president that we're not going to fund any portion of [Obamacare]. Because we can't do that.
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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?
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I won't press you on this issue, I know you can't answer,
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It doesn't have much to do with Alaska, ... It has to do with priorities for our country.
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the presence of them certainly designates life and to say it otherwise, logically, is schizophrenic.
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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,
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I am looking for somebody who is not going to make that mistake again in any other area of life,
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I believe that we should spend taxpayer dollars where they are most needed,
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one of those once-in-a-decade moments where we can forge a left-right alliance on a policy issue.
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We find ourselves in significant difficulties as a nation,
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That record doesn't hold up to the smell test that has been presented here today and it's a little bit disturbing to me because it's this subtle way of trying to say you are not who you really are,
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They can stick their head in the sand, but the fact is, whatever passes the House is going to have some type of liability,