Topic: Tom Coburn
A wedge issue is an issue which can be used to turn the different parts of a political coalition against one another. For the democrats, deficit reduction could turn out to be just the wedge issue they need to turn Tea Party ...
Democratic Sen. McCaskill joins GOP's Coburn in pushing for a floor vote on earmarksMissouri Democrat Claire McCaskill says senators should go on-record for or against pork-barrel earmarks this week and worries that her party will look out of touch if leaders block ...
Tom Coburn continues as the Senator in Oklahoma with his re-election to the seat in the November 2010 elections. Tom Coburn is a Republican senator from Oklahoma, who was elected to the Senate on November 2, 2004 on the platform of reducing ...
The title of a recently released MSNBC article (March 2, 2010) is " "Obama's letter said he was open to appropriating an extra $50 million for pilot programs that experiment with specialized health courts rather than jury trials. "Sen. Tom Coburn, an ...
A conservative Republican is holding up a broadly supported bill in the Senate aimed at paying off settlements with black farmers and American Indians. Republican Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma is throwing up a roadblock to the bill.
A House committee hearing on salmonella and the recent egg recall deteriorated at times into a partisan sniping match over a long-pending food safety bill that has stalled in the Senate. During opening statements, Democrats referred several times to the bill, saying ...
Republican Tom Coburn defeats GOP challengers for US Senate nomination in OklahomaIncumbent Republican Tom Coburn has defeated two challengers from his own party in a primary election for a U.S. Senate seat in Oklahoma.Coburn defeated perennial candidate Evelyn Rogers of Tulsa and ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of jobless Americans could once again face a disruption in their unemployment benefits after Congress failed to extend them on Thursday.Amid the deepest recession in 70 years, Congress prepared to adjourn for a two-week break without ...
Democrats and Republicans both worry that health care cost increases are not sustainable, but they appear to share little agreement on how to keep health care affordable while maintaining quality, judging by comments at President Obama's health care summit on Feb. 25.. ...
In anticipation of Senate Democrats' introduction of an $849 billion dollar plan to overhaul the nation's health care system, Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn last week announced his intention to press for a full reading of the 2,074 page bill on the floor ...
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Deficit Commission
Debt Commission co-chairman Erskine Bowles, center, talks with commission member Sen. Tom ...AP News - -
Oklahoma House Senate
Republican candidate for the 5th House district from Oklahoma, James Lankford, left ...AP News - -
Goldman Sachs Investigation
Sen. Tom Coburn, R- Okla., right, watches as Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich ...AP News -
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Dr. Coburn Calling Up His Amendments ...
(Tuesday, January 31, 2021) Today, Dr. Coburn called up three ...2012-01-31 -
Sen. Tom Coburn: I Will Have ...
Oklahoma conservative Senator Tom Coburn told Chris Wallace today that ...2011-12-04 -
Tom Coburn Calls Newt Gingrich's ...
Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn had some harsh words for Former ...2011-12-06
