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
leadership republican
We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.
backs children easy pass pay
We're going to do the easy thing. We should pay for this, ... We should pass this bill, but we should not pass it on the backs of our children and grandchildren.
confirmed double hate judges
We want judges who are well qualified. Ginsburg was confirmed with 96 votes. . . . I would hate to see a double standard,
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The process is broken. It's more about how you feed your re-election cycle than doing what is in the best interest of the country.
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.
fear great
I used to have a great fear of constitutional conventions. I have a great fear now of not having one.
audit efficient forces money refuse
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.
certainly life presence
the presence of them certainly designates life and to say it otherwise, logically, is schizophrenic.
chinese
We are in essence, through an American taxpayers' loan, subsidizing the Chinese to take more of our technology,
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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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The new guidance for condom labels issued today by the FDA recognizes that current condom claims do not meet this medical standard.
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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,
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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,