foxnews.com - 6/8/2009
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Capitol Hill interns might miss out this summer on a famed lecture from Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn on the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases -- all because of a dispute over who will pay for pizza. The Senate Ethics Committee is requiring that Coburn, a Republican, buy the pizza for the 150 ...
thehill.com - 6/5/2009
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A Republican senator who is also a doctor
is calling for a new era of Prohibition —...
outlawing cigarette smoking and other tobacco use. The unlikely demand comes from Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), one of the staunchest free-market conservatives in the ...
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Republican senator seeks to outlaw tobacco
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 6/10/2009
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Tom Coburn (R-OK) On CSPAN this morning, Senator
Tom Coburn made the case against a government-run insurance...
plan on the strange grounds that a government-run health care delivery system would be ineffective. Specifically, he claims that ...
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Coburn Claims “VA Is Not Up to the Level of Health Care ...
washingtonmonthly.com - 6/10/2009
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THE BEST CARE ANYWHERE.... Matt Yglesias caught Sen.
Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) on C-SPAN this morning, and heard...
the far-right senator make the case "against a government-run insurance plan on the strange grounds that a government-run health care delivery ...
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The Best Care Anywhere
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The Pizza War:Senator Coburn’s STD Lecture Put On Hold Over Pizza Dispute
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
FOX News:
Capitol Hill interns might miss out this summer on a famed lecture from Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn on the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases — all because of a dispute over who will pay for pizza.
The Senate Ethics Committee is requiring that Coburn, a Republican, buy the pizza for the 150 to 300 interns — rather than have outside groups that have previously helped sponsor the event foot the bill.
Coburn spokesman John Hart said the “safe-sex slide show” — which Coburn, a practicing ...
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Tom Coburn's STD lecture on hold due to pizza dispute.
Lobbyists not getting gifts for lawmakers anymore, but they're "honoring" the heck out of them.
Two Democrats cross over to hand Republicans control of the state senate...in New York? Comeback!
Blair and Panetta fighting over spies.
There she is, Miss Tibet. Walking on air, fairest of the fair, and ticking off China.
Ramping up for Afghanistan.
Eugene Robinson concludes that Obama talking about himself is indeed the ...
Coburn's STD lecture in danger
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... Hill interns this year, depriving hundreds of college students one of the more awkward moments of their summer in DC. Coburn, an OBGYN, has traditionally provided a sometimes-graphic slide show to inters as a warning to practice safe sex. (He also warns students that condoms aren't 100% effective.) But this summer, the Senate Ethics Committee is taking issue with Coburn's plan to have outside groups sponsor the lecture and buy pizzas for the 150 to 300 interns expected to attend. Fox News: "Coburn spokesman John Hart said the "safe-sex slide show" — which Coburn, a practicing ...
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