hotair.com - 15 days ago
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Oklahoma’s Tom Coburn is an old-school conservative, and an old-school Senator. How traditional can Dr. [...] Read the rest »
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marinecorpstimes.com - 18 days ago
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Thirteen major military and veterans groups have joined
forces to try to force one senator — Republican
Tom Coburn of Oklahoma — to release a hold that he has placed on a major veterans benefits bill. Coburn has been identified by Senate aides as the ...
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Coburn named as senator holding up vets bill
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Hero: Senator Tom Coburn Threatening To Force Health Care Bill To Be Read Aloud In The Senate
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... And given the heft of the several-thousand-page document, as Ed Morrissey points out, the bill would essentially be filibustering itself: ...
Doctor No, health care rationing, and unanimous consent.
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... with his constituents – so that argument is out, too. Ed Morrissey thinks that this could delay the bill for up to half a year; I don’t expect it to go that far, but Coburn’s poised to be able to do one heck of a monkeywrenching job on the health care rationing bill for at least the rest of 2009… ...
Doctor No, health care rationing, and unanimous consent.
RedState —
... with his constituents - so that argument is out, too. Ed Morrissey thinks that this could delay the bill for up to half a year; I don’t expect it to go that far, but Coburn’s poised to be able to do one heck of a monkeywrenching job on the health care rationing bill for at least the rest of 2009… ...
Tom Coburn Threatens to Have Obamacare Bill Read on the Floor
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Tom Coburn Threatens to Have Obamacare Bill Read on the Floor Posted on November 7, 2009 Thousands of pages takes time to read. This is awesome! Coburn goes old school! Sen. Tom Coburn, the Oklahoma Republican who developed a close friendship with President Obama when they served together in the Senate, is threatening to have the entire health care bill read on the Senate floor. Senior Senate Democratic aides had heard Coburn was considering having potentially thousands of pages read aloud in effort to stall passage. “If he did this it would be even outrageous ...
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thehill.com 4 days ago — The hold on a veterans' benefits bill in the Senate was lifted on Wednesday by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.). Coburn's office confirmed that the Oklahoma conservative had agreed to lift his hold on the bill in exchange for the opportunity to offer an ...
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thinkprogress.org 17 days ago — One of the Senate’s most vociferous opponents of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) has been Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), who called the stimulus “the worst act of generational theft in our nation’s history .” Today, ...
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krugman.blogs.nytimes.com 10/8/2009 — Social science research is important, and doesn't need to face these kinds of know-nothing attacks.
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washingtonmonthly.com 30 days ago — COBURN REACHES OUT TO THOSE HE LOATHES.... How desperate is Tom Coburn to derail health care reform? He's willing to reach out to the LGBT community. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) penned an op-ed for the online version of the LGBT...
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thehill.com 10/8/2009 — The federal government should stop funding political science and leave the field to pundits and bloggers, says Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) The Oklahoma Republican introduced an amendment yesterday to an annual appropriations bill that would eliminate ...
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The Senate waiting game —
First Read 13 days ago
From NBC's Ken StricklandThe Senate is waiting -- waiting for a cost estimate from the Congressional Budget Office, and waiting for Majority Leader Harry Reid to line up 60 votes to just get the health-care bill on the floor. The CBO numbers ...
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