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Thomas Allen "Tom" Coburn, M.D. (born March 14, 1948), is an American politician, medical doctor, and Southern Baptist deacon. A member of the Republican Party, he currently serves as the junior U.S. Senator from Oklahoma. In the Senate, he is known as "Dr. No" for his tendency to place holds on and vote against bills he views as unconstitutional.Coburn was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1994 as part of the Republican Revolution. He upheld his campaign pledge to serve no more than three consecutive terms and did not run for re-election in 2000. In 2004, he returned to political office with a successful run for the U.S. Senate. Coburn is a fiscal and social conservative, known for his opposition to deficit spending and pork barrel projects, and for his leadership in ...
Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), who recently withdrewfrom the so-called Gang of Six (US Senators working on a federal budget deficit reduction plan), says today that he will "in the coming weeks" offer up his own plan to reduce the deficit by $9 trillion over ten years.
Sen. Coburn, who is a close personal friend of President Obama and one of the Senate's most conservative members, is explicit in his Washington Post op-editorial. He says his plan and any plan necessarily must address all aspects of federal spending, including so-called entitlement programs and national defense, and must also raise ...
The Republican senator talks about how he'd fix government waste, what to do about government employees, and how Americans know how stupid Congress is.
Last week, Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn called members of Congress everything from "stupid" to "jackasses," following the release of a comprehensive study by theGovernment Accountability Office that found dozens of overlapping and duplicative programs from education to defensethat cost taxpayers billions of dollars each year. The 330-plus page reportis the first in a series looking at ways government could reduce waste and save public ...
Sen. Tom Coburn faces troubling new questions about his role in the extramarital affair of his former colleague, Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.), including allegations that the Oklahoma Republican may have not been completely candid when questioned by Senate investigators about the still unfolding scandal.
For Coburn, the Ensign case has been a confusing — and apparently unending — parade of contradictions involving personal friendship, loyalty, religion, and political self-preservation. Coburn has found himself making headlines he clearly never wanted, and now he is a recurring ...