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Senator Tom Coburn spoke out on Tuesday at a town hall meeting in Bethany, about his pick for president.  
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On June 4, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) demanded that the United States stop funding the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) “until its ...  
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Dems have the goods on gutsy anti-pork Senator Tom Coburn . He's committed the ultimate crime - bringing babies into the world : Coburn has come under new pressure from the Ethics panel for delivering babies at ...  
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The New York Times reports that the Democrats have a plan to roll over Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), who continues to annoy his colleagues by placing "holds" on bills he doesn't like:A product of Democratic frustration with the tactics of Senator Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican and physician who...  
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The New York Times takes a look at Senator Tom Coburn and all the legislation he's single-handedly holding up under the Senate's weird rules where one member can block a bill unless it's Chris Dodd trying to maintain some limits to presidential surveillance power. Tim Fernholz comments on...  
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Frustrated by Tom Coburn's "unprecedented obstructionism," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid cobbled together a "Tomnibus" of 35 bills with "broad—virtually unanimous—bipartisan support" that Coburn had blocked. On Monday the Oklahoma Republican blocked them again.Unable to muster the 60...  
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You can't make this stuff up, folks: Senate dems are actually filing ethics complaints against Senator Tom Coburn because he delivers babies free of charge. Does anyone believe that this complaint would have been filed against Senator Coburn if he had been performing free abortions? Of...  
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A political website is reporting Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn underwent tests at a Washington, D.C. area hospital.  
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the audacity of action Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) in in a no-holds-barred cage match with Senate Majority Leader Harry and, oddly enough, the Washington Post isn't reflexively jumping to the defense of the scrappy, embattled, former pugilist from Searchlight, Nevada. Coburn has become best...  
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What is Dr. Tom Coburn, the Republican US Senator (and ob/gyn) from Oklahoma doing that's so terrible he faces possible sanctions from the Senate Ethics ...  
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Having failed to stop the irresponsible $50 billion global AIDS bill, Senate conservatives are now being given a second chance. Can they stand up to Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid and block the so-called Coburn Omnibus of more irresponsible spending? Reid jokingly named the bill after the...  
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These bills have been held up by Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK). Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has created this "omnibus" bill to break down the ...  
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See this story and this one, which cover Senator Tom Coburn's efforts to bring excessive government spending to heel by refusing any and all expenditures unless there are appropriate offsets to those expenditures. I am not a fan of term limits but it is impossible to deny that Coburn's...  
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WASHINGTON -- It is my intention to celebrate a legislative and moral victory -- the reauthorization and expansion of America's massive effort to fight global AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria -- with an apology. Two months ago, I made a rather vivid attack on a group of United States senators...  
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Speaking of reading body language, both the Washington Post and the New York Times put on their front pages today pieces about Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla) and, specifically, per the Times, Democrats' efforts to "break grip of the Senate's Flinty Dr. No" (Coburn). Both accounts include the detail...  
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