Oklahoma Politics

(23 Dec 2011) Republican senator from Oklahoma calls on silly spending such as games... and readin' and writin' U.S. Senator Tom Coburn is a Republican senator from the great US State of Oklahoma and hes sick of the US government spending silly money on things like, Pancakes, Millions In Foreign Aid to... China? and Video Game Preservation. Dr Coburn is a big campaigner against bad spending and ...  

Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) released his “ Wastebook ” a week ago – a list of 100 government-funded projects that are supposedly a waste of money. Every campaign season, quite predictably, someone from the GOP makes a document like this, listing examples of spending that, in their view, represents the most egregious excesses of governmental spending. Counting on their voters not to know or ...  

Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) has a degree in medicine, so I would expect that he’s had some rudimentary biology education at some point in his life. However, you wouldn’t know it just from glancing through the entries in his “ Wastebook “, a list of projects funded by the government that he considers wasteful. A good handful of the projects on his list are STEM projects, and in one such entry, he ...  

Congressman John Sullivan and Senator Tom Coburn have sent a letter to the National Indian Gaming Commission and Bureau of Indian Affairs asking for more information about the Kialegee Tribal Town casino building project.  

Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn has released his new oversight report, "Wastebook 2011" that highlights over $6.5 billion in taxpayer dollars waste.