Tom Coburn

As the Senate Health Care debate gets underway, the party that brought you “Death Panels” now promises that President Obama is going to kill senior citizens. A Senator , specifically addressing seniors, said, “I’ve got a message for you: you’re going to die soon .” As shameful as that statement is, it’s made even more shameful since it’s made by a practicing doctor. Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma. Watch the video on the top right of the page and hear this for yourselves. Then read the facts. Eliminating waste in Medicare will NOT reduce benefits! Reform will IMPROVE Medicare! Health Care Reform will EXPAND ... Read Full Story

Republican Sen. Tom Coburn is backing off his threat to require that the Senate read the 2,074-page health care bill because some GOP colleagues aren't supporting the effort. The Oklahoma lawmaker said there's uncertainty about whether reading the bill during Thanksgiving week would be productive. He also said that if the Republicans do decide to tie up the Senate for the dozens of hours it would take, six GOP colleagues have committed to pitching in on reading duty. Coburn also said in an interview with The Associated Press that he questions whether Americans who might be listening in would understand a line-by-line reading. Coburn, ... Read Full Story

The Senate ground to a halt Wednesday in a display of what an individual senator can do to protest his treatment by some of Capitol Hill's most powerful barons. Instead of passing a $33.5 billion measure funding energy and water projects and then moving on to other business, the chamber slogged through a 30-hour protest by Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., who halted further legislative business after one of his pet ideas was dropped from the bill. At issue is one of Coburn's top issues — greater transparency in government — as well as his sworn enemy, the powerful Appropriations Committee. Coburn had added to ... Read Full Story

Sen Tom Coburn (R-OK) is a doctor, yes a medical doctor. He also postures as a fiscal conservative. Maybe it is no surprise that he put a personal hold on the Senate bill to increase VA coverage for disabled vets and their care-takers on the basis that how it is paid for isn't demonstrated. A principled stand? The amount of principle involved might have some question when you consider that he voted for the unfunded War supplemental in 2005. He admitted that and stated that he was new and it was the only time. That would be a true statement if it weren't for ... Read Full Story

How your senators are spending their multimillion dollar budgets for staff salaries, travel, and office expenses may soon be just a computer mouse click away. The Senate is planning to follow the House in posting office expenses on the Internet instead of in volumes that must to be purchased or viewed in Capitol office buildings. The idea, says Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., is to let people see what their lawmakers are doing with their taxpayer-funded office accounts — and hold their feet to the fire for questionable expenses. "They've got it on computer. Just now make it available so everybody in the country can ... Read Full Story