Coburn, T Sen 9%

ranked very conservative, butts heads w/ Norquist http://www.salon.com/2012/07/16/norquist_jumps_the_shark/

this town: start as bombthrower (model for TP new guys) but actually does bi-part now?) 90-2

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Tom Coburn | League of Conservation Voters Scorecard

life 9%

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kept promise not to run for 3rd, rev door:

NEW YORK, Dec. 19, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Manhattan Institute is proud to announce former U.S. Sen. and physician Dr. Tom Coburn as a senior fellow in health policy. Dr. Coburn's role will expand his work as an advisor to the Institute's Project FDA, an initiative promoting reforms to assist the FDA in meeting 21st century health care challenges.

Dr. Coburn's career includes two terms in the U.S. Senate representing the state of Oklahoma from 2005 to 2015, where he was a ranking member of the Committee on Homeland Security. He also served three terms in the House of Representatives from 1995 to 2001.

Dr. Coburn practiced as an obstetrician after graduating from the University of Oklahoma Medical School. He is a three-time cancer survivor, having been previously diagnosed with melanoma, prostate and colon cancer.

"It is an honor for us to welcome Dr. Coburn as a senior fellow with the Institute," said Larry Mone, President of the Manhattan Institute. "For decades, he has worked tirelessly and selflessly on behalf of patients, and has been a leading advocate for bringing innovative ideas to health care. Together with Dr. Coburn, the Manhattan Institute's Project FDA will continue to focus on blue-sky reform efforts that bring faster, safer cures to patients."

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Wa NEW YORK, Dec. 19, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Manhattan Institute is proud to announce former U.S. Sen. and physician Dr. Tom Coburn as a senior fellow in health policy. Dr. Coburn's role will expand his work as an advisor to the Institute's Project FDA, an initiative promoting reforms to assist the FDA in meeting 21st century health care challenges.

Dr. Coburn's career includes two terms in the U.S. Senate representing the state of Oklahoma from 2005 to 2015, where he was a ranking member of the Committee on Homeland Security. He also served three terms in the House of Representatives from 1995 to 2001.

Dr. Coburn practiced as an obstetrician after graduating from the University of Oklahoma Medical School. He is a three-time cancer survivor, having been previously diagnosed with melanoma, prostate and colon cancer.

"It is an honor for us to welcome Dr. Coburn as a senior fellow with the Institute," said Larry Mone, President of the Manhattan Institute. "For decades, he has worked tirelessly and selflessly on behalf of patients, and has been a leading advocate for bringing innovative ideas to health care. Together with Dr. Coburn, the Manhattan Institute's Project FDA will continue to focus on blue-sky reform efforts that bring faster, safer cures to patients."

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congratulations are in order for Jim DeMint: Saying that his move signals a “new mission” for the Tea Party, the former senator has gone from presiding over one of the most well-funded institutions in the dark-money ecosystem to advising one of the most radical. DeMint, the Republican who retired from the Senate in 2013 to run the Heritage Foundation has been named a “senior advisor” to the Convention of States Project—a nationwide effort backed by billionaires like the Kochs and the Mercers to revise the United States Constitution without the approval of Congress.

A hero to Tea Party Republicans, DeMint was already perceived to have led Heritage away from its policy-oriented beginnings, and according to Politico, his continued support for Trump drove a wedge between him and the Heritage Foundation’s board of directors. They voted early last month to remove DeMint as president of the organization amid a broader debate in the conservative establishment over what posture to take towards an increasingly volatile Trump administration.

“The Tea Party needs a new mission,” DeMint told *USA Today*, of his new role. “They realize that all the work they did in 2010 has not resulted in all the things they hoped for. Many of them are turning to Article V,” a legal loophole that would (theoretically) allow state legislators to bypass Congress. At the Convention of States Project, DeMint will join another former senator, Tom Coburn, who now travels to state legislatures across the country lobbying lawmakers to pass resolutions demanding that Congress hold a convention to amend the constitution. It’s not clear whether DeMint will be working as a lobbyist like Coburn. The Convention of States Project did not immediately respond to Fusion’s request for comment. >Various activist groups have sought to amend the constitution on specific points through an Article V convention before, but few have been as well-funded or as ideologically driven as the Convention of States Project, steeped in evangelical Christianity and backed by millions of dollars in dark money. Between 2011 and 2015, the group’s budget more than tripled to $5.7 million—buoyed by donations from the Mercer Family Foundation and various donor-advised funds linked to the Koch brothers. (Eric O’Keefe, a longtime Koch operative, co-founded the Convention of States Project’s parent organization, Citizens for Self Governance, and serves as chairman of its board of directors.) Two thirds of state legislatures (so, 34) must pass resolutions petitioning Congress to hold an Article V convention in order to make it happen; so far, 12 have passed the Convention of States application.

“Convention of States is a much more radical approach to a constitutional convention” than earlier efforts, Arn Pearson, General Counsel at the Center for Media and Democracy, told Fusion. “Their budget has increased dramatically. This is their effort to push the state agenda as far as they can while they hold peak power.”

One Convention of States lobbyist (a member of the Utah legislature in his spare time) lauded Texas governor and Article V proponent Greg Abbott’s plan for several proposed amendments, including one that would prohibit Congress from regulating activity that occurs wholly within a single state—a proposal that would effectively negate what little remains of progress made during the New Deal and the Civil Rights eras. “I see these guys as the new Confederacy,” Pearson said. “They want to have it so that states are no longer bound by federal law. They want the ability to opt out.”

“People are disgusted with Washington,” DeMint told *USA Today*. “They are ready to move power back closer to home.” A fitting cause for the gentleman from South Carolina—although, actually, the preferred terminology these days isn’t “states’ rights” but “local control.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/13/koch-brothers-ethanol-subsidies-grover-norquist_n_876430.html

WASHINGTON — Opponents of ethanol subsidies got a boost Monday from Koch Industries as the company announced its opposition to the giveaways on the eve of a major vote in the Senate.

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) is pushing a vote on an amendment Tuesday that would end ethanol subsidies and eliminate tariffs on foreign supplies of the biofuel. That would allow companies to use sugar-based Brazilian ethanol, which is cheaper than the domestic corn-based variety, though presents environmental challenges.

Ethanol is a key national issue for the GOP because of the importance of Iowa’s early caucus to the presidential primary. Former Gov. Jon Huntsman (R-Utah) is skipping the state, he has said, because his opposition to the subsidies is toxic in the state. The issue has split the Republican Party, with free market advocates and deficit hawks pushing for elimination of the subsidies and corn-state politicians fighting back.

The conservative power broker Grover Norquist has battled Coburn, arguing that ending the handouts is equivalent to increasing taxes, meaning that candidates who signed a no-new-taxes pledge would be breaking their word. He has chargedthat Coburn “lied his way into office.”

Norquist has been critical of Coburn and other Republicans who have highlighted the yawning federal deficit, arguing that the focus should be on reducing spending rather than trimming the national debt. He worries that if the American people are forced to choose between the two ways of reducing the deficit — tax hikes or spending cuts — they’ll eventually pick tax increases.

While the Kochs are public about their politics and occasionally engage directly with legislation, it is rare for the Kochs to get in the trenches with a letter on a specific amendment as they’ve done in Coburn’s case. But it might not be enough to get his amendment over the top. In order to get a vote on it, Coburn pulled a procedural move that irked Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who responded by calling on his caucus to oppose the amendment on procedural grounds.

Coburn said that such a move will put Democrats on the wrong side of public opinion. “Go home and explain to your constituency you didn’t vote on a bill, an amendment, because you didn’t like the way it was brought up, regardless of the substance,” he told HuffPost on Tuesday before the vote. “Rule 22 allows any senator to offer an amendment, so I didn’t do anything out of the ordinary. The only reason I used that procedure is because they don’t allow us to have any votes.”

Coburn and Koch Industries have been in discussion about the political issue for several months. But ultimately, the company says, the Koch’s commitment to free-market principles overrides the fact that their company benefits from the subsidies.

“Koch Industries has opposed federal mandates and subsidies for decades,” the letter to Coburn, written by the Kochs’ lobbyist, reads. “Our aim is to create a free market where consumers decide winners and losers based on which products they decide to buy, instead of government picking winners and losers based on which friends or products it chooses to subsidize. One such government intervention is the tax credit that provides about $6 billion each year to blenders of ethanol.”

“We hold this position despite the fact that we benefit from these tax credits,” the letter points out.

Koch Industries will, however, continue to exploit the credits, if they aren’t repealed....

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And she was right. Because DDT was widely used, mosquitoes evolved resistance. In Sri Lanka, for example, this lead to a worsening epidemic and hundreds of thousands of cases of malariaas DDT became ineffective. The ban on the agricultural use of DDT that Carson inspired saved lives by slowing the development of resistance.

In conjunction with their Carson hate-site the CEI are also offering their expert, Angela Logomasini (she has a degree in politics, not malariology) for interviews about Rachel Carson’s legacy. You just know that some lazy reporters will balance their stories about Carson by quoting an environmentalist about great Carson was and then quoting Logomasini screeching about how Carson killed millions of people. And you just know that they won’t check Logomasini’s claims for accuracy.

Meanwhile Senator Tom Coburn has blocked a resolution to honour Rachel Carson, accusing her of causing the death of millions of people. And CEI alumnus Ron Bailey joins the chorus with a post blaming Carson for the deaths of millions from insect-borne diseases like malaria. In his post and in his articles he links, nowhere does he mention insecticide resistance or what Carson wrote about it. What a surprise.

http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2007/05/23/rachel-carson-kills-babies-org/

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// inhofe ammo scandle, pulled bill to only register guns held BY feds 5/13

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conservative wing of the party which is really a radical wing of the party, from Pat Toomey to Jim Inhofe and Tom Coburn.

lcv score 7

Americans for Tax Reform, a conservative anti-tax group, is taking shots at Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) for donating to Senate Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia.

Read the whole story at *The Hill*

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OKLAHOMA

Sen. Tom Coburn, up for re-election, is a global warming denier:

Coburn asked how many in the audience thought that climate change was manmade. A minority of the attendees raised their hands. Coburn then asked how many had read the science, and about two-thirds of those hands went down. He then asked how many did not believe climate change was manmade, and a majority of attendees raised their hands. He asked how many had read the science, and roughly half the hands went down. “I am not the smartest man in the world,” Coburn said. “But I have been trained to read scientific documents, and it’s malarkey.”

Sooner Tea Party, [8/25/09]

Coburn opposes the EPA finding that greenhouse gases are pollution and opposes a cap-and-trade market to reduce global warming pollution: “There’s a new energy tax coming our way from Washington that’s a job-killer for Ohio, called cap-and-trade.”

Coburn is also a signatory of the Contract From America and the No Climate Tax pledge.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Coburn

Thomas Allen "Tom" Coburn (born March 14, 1948) is an American politician and medical doctor. A member of the Republican Party, he was the junior United States Senator from Oklahoma.

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 life with a successful run for the U.S. Senate. Coburn was re-elected to a second term in 2010 and pledged not to seek a third term in 2016.^[1] In January 2014, Coburn announced he would retire before the expiration of his final term.^[2] He submitted a letter of resignation to Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin, effective at the end of the 113th Congress.^[3]

Coburn is a fiscal and social conservative, known for his opposition to deficit spending and pork barrel projects and for his opposition to abortion. Described as "the godfather of the modern conservative, austerity movement",^[4] he supports term limits, gun rights and the death penalty^[5] and opposes same-sex marriage and embryonic stem cell research.^[6][7] Democrats have referred to him as "Dr. No."^[8]

Contents

• 1Personal life and medical career
• 2Political career
  • 2.1House career
  • 2.2Senate career
    • 2.2.1Committee assignments
• 3Political positions
  • 3.1Abortion
  • 3.2Fiscal conservatism
  • 3.3Gun rights
  • 3.4Health care reform
  • 3.5Presidential nominations
  • 3.6Same-sex marriage
  • 3.7War in Iraq
• 4Controversies
  • 4.1Allegations of non-consensual sterilization and Medicaid fraud
  • 4.2*Schindler's List* TV broadcast
  • 4.3Use of Senate hold
  • 4.4Affiliation with The Family and John Ensign
  • 4.5Council on American-Islamic Relations
  • 4.6Criticism of the National Science Foundation
  • 4.7STOCK Act
• 5Post-Senate career
• 6Awards
• 7Miscellany
• 8Electoral history
• 9See also
• 10References
• 11External links

Personal life and medical career

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Thomas Allen Coburn, M.D., a Republican, has been the Junior Senator from the state of Oklahoma since 2005. (map)

Record and controversies

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Iraq War

For more information see the chart of U.S. Senate votes on the Iraq War.

Environmental record

For more information on environmental legislation, see the Energy and Environment Policy Portal

Firearms in National Parks

Tucked away in the "Miscellaneous Provision" section at the end of the Credit Cardholders' Bill of Rights Act of 2009 H.R.627 is a provision allowing people to carry loaded firearms in national parks and wildlife refuges.

The amendment was introduced by Sen. Coburn, who said that concerns about increased violence were overblown: "I don't expect anything major to come from this other than to restore the Second Amendment rights taken away by bureaucrats." [1]

As of February 22, 2010, guns will be allowed in all but about 20 of the park service's 392 locations, including: Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, and Yosemite National Park. [2]

The Credit Cardholders' Bill of Rights Act of 2009, along with Sen. Coburn's "Protecting Americans from Violent Crimes" amendment passed by votes of 279-147 in the House and 90-5 in the Senate.

Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act

On April 6, 2006, Sens. Coburn, Barack Obama (D-Ill.), John McCain (R-Ariz.), and Tom Carper (D-Del.) introduced the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (S.2590). The bill would require the Office of Management and Budget to create a searchable online database of all governments contracts and has been hailed as a "Google" for federal spending. The bill was signed into law by President George W. Bush on September 26, 2006, and created the website ExpectMore.gov.

The bill was stalled for over a month due to anonymous holds placed by Sens. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) and Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.). [3] Eventually, both senators dropped their holds, allowing the bill to pass by a voice vote on September 7, 2006. [4] It passed the House by voice vote on September 13, 2006. [5]

Main article: Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act

Abortion

In 2000, Coburn sponsored an ultimately failed bill to prevent the Food and Drug Administration from developing, testing or approving RU-486. [6] Coburn also objects to legal abortion in cases of rape, and he has justified his position by noting that his great-grandmother was raped by a sheriff. [7] In the U.S. Senate confirmation hearings concerning Samuel Alito, before the Senate, Senator Coburn mentioned that his grandmother was a product of that rape.

Breast implants

In January 2005, during a Senate Judiciary Committee discussion about class-action lawsuits and silicone breast implants, The Washington Post quoted Coburn as stating:

"You know, I immediately thought about silicone breast implants and the legal wrangling and the class-action suits off that. And I thought I would just share with you what science says today about silicone breast implants. If you have them, you're healthier than if you don't. That is what the ultimate science shows...In fact, there's no science that shows that silicone breast implants are detrimental and, in fact, they make you healthier." [8]

Coburn may have been referring to the conclusions of a December 2004 study published in the journal Breast Cancer Research[9]. The study showed that the sample group had a slightly lower than expected incidence of breast cancer over the period of the study in women who have had a mastectomy following early-stage breast cancer.

Global warming

During his run for the U. S. Senate, Coburn was quoted as saying that there was, "....no hard evidence to support global warming." Coburn called global warming "just a lot of crap." [10]

Homosexuality

According to The American Prospect during Coburn's 2004 senatorial campaign in Oklahoma, Coburn remarked that in the town of Coalgate, Oklahoma, lesbianism was "so rampant in some of the schools...that they'll let only one girl go to the bathroom." [11] School officials have denied his statement. [12] Coburn has also been quoted as saying:

"The gay community has infiltrated the very centers of power in every area across this country, and they wield extreme power... That agenda is the greatest threat to our freedom that we face today. Why do you think we see the rationalization for abortion and multiple sexual partners? That's a gay agenda." [13]

Schindler's List

As a congressman in 1997, Coburn protested NBC's airing of the R-rated Academy Award-winning Holocaust drama Schindler's List. Coburn said in airing the movie NBC had taken television "to an all-time low, with full-frontal nudity, violence and profanity." He also said the broadcast should outrage parents and decent-minded individuals everywhere. Coburn described the airing of Schindler's List as "...irresponsible sexual behavior...I cringe when I realize that there were children all across this nation watching this program."

Many people disagreed with this statement, including a number of fellow Republican Congressmen who criticized Coburn in their speeches. Coburn later apologized "to all those I have offended" and clarified that he agreed with the movie being aired, but insisted it should have been on later in the evening. In apologizing, Coburn said that at that time of the evening there are still large numbers of children watching without parental supervision and he stood by his message of protecting children from violence, but expressed it poorly. He also said, "my intentions were good, but I've obviously made an error in judgment in how I've gone about saying what I wanted to say."

He later wrote in his book Breach of Trust that he considered this one of the biggest mistakes in his life and that, while he still feels the material was unsuitable for television, he handled the situation poorly.

Sterilization Controversy

A woman alleged that Coburn, an ob-gyn, sterilized her without her consent during an emergency surgery to treat a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy in 1990. Coburn contends that he had her oral consent, but he did not obtain written consent. A resulting civil malpractice suit was ultimately dismissed with no finding of liability on Coburn's part.[14]

The Roberts confirmation hearings

On September 14, 2005, during the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee John Roberts, Coburn stopped working on a crossword puzzle and began speaking about partisan politics while, according to news reports, "choking back a sob". [15] Coburn then began his questioning by revealing his confusion regarding the various legal terms bandied about during the previous day's hearings. Proceeding to questions regarding both abortion and end-of-life issues, Coburn, who noted that during his tenure as a general practitioner he had delivered some 4,000 babies, asked Roberts whether the judge agreed with the proposition that "the opposite of being dead is being alive."

You know I'm going somewhere. One of the problems I have is coming up with just the common sense and logic that if brain wave and heartbeat signifies life, the absence of them signifies death, then the presence of them certainly signifies life.

And to say it otherwise, logically is schizophrenic. And that's how I view a lot of the decisions that have come from the Supreme Court on the issue of abortion.[16]

"Clay pigeon" amendment

On May 5, 2006, Coburn offered a rare "clay pigeon" amendment to an emergency supplemental bill. This amendment, divided into 19 sections, was intended to strip non-emergency projects from the bill. On this date, an amendment to block a $700 million economic development project in Mississippi failed by a vote of 47–50. An amendment to block a $500 million corporate welfare benefit package for Northrop Grumman, a major defense contractor, failed by a vote of 48–51. A Coburn amendment to remove $15 million for seafood promotion strategies, however, was accepted by a Senate vote of 51–44. [17]

Investigation into earmarked funds to colleges and universities

In August 2006, Coburn began to investigate federal funds earmarked to colleges and universities since 2000. He mailed a letter to schools asking detailed questions about the specific funds directed to them, and requested that he receive a response by September 1, 2006. On September 12, Coburn’s spokesman, John Hart, announced that the senator would be releasing both the response letters he received as well as a statement to the public. [18]

Federal budget

FY2007 continuing resolution

In early 2007, Sen. Coburn, the Senate's sole physician, strongly criticized the House-passed continuing resolution for FY2007 for failing to fund a $30 million program he authored to test newborns for the AIDS virus. A spokesman for Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) said the funds were not appropriated because no states had yet met the criteria to be eligible to receive them.

Main article: Continuing resolution of 2007

FY2007 Legislative Branch appropriations bill

According to CongressDailyAm, a publication of the National Journal, Sen. Coburn is preventing the 2007 Legislative Brach appropriations bill because it increases Senate spending by 8 percent. In defense of his actions he states that "In a time of war, rising gas prices and record deficits, increasing our own budget by an exorbitant amount sends the wrong message to the public".[19]

Objection to disaster-loan legislation

On July 17, 2007, Sen. Coburn objected unanimous passage of bipartisan disaster-loan legislation, which has also received endorsement by the President. Coburn cited concerns over the bill's financial safeguards, which encourage "banks to make risky loans by offering a government guarantee of 85 percent for defaults," lack fiscal offsets, and include a provision that would assess the government’s ability to offer economic-injury loans to companies “adversely affected by a lack of snowfall.”^[1]

Objection to widely accepted gun bill

On October 3, 2007, Sen. Coburn blocked a new firearms law, born from issues concerning the Virginia Tech shootings. Coburn said that the bill, which is designed to improve the federal system for checking gun buyers' mental health history in order to block purchases by those diagnosed as mentally ill, would create "a pathway by which individuals can lose their Second Amendment rights but no pathway through which they can gain them back if they're stable." Another reason for placing a hold on the bill is because he believed that the cost was too high, estimating that it will run to $2 billion over the next several years. Although Coburn is known to place holds on many popular bills, he is supported by the Gun Owners of America and the American Legion, who are worried that the bill could unintentionally deny gun rights to wartime veterans.^[2]

Bio

Background

Coburn was born March 14, 1948 in Casper, Wyoming to German-American parents, and graduated with a B.S. in accounting from Oklahoma State University. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma Medical School in 1983. He made his living as a physician, and served as a deacon in the Southern Baptist Church, until 1994 when he ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in Oklahoma's heavily Democratic 2nd District. Coburn faced Virgil Cooper. Coburn won by a 52%–48% margin, becoming the first Republican to represent the district since 1921.

As a Congressman, Coburn opposed abortion and the proposed V-chip. He kept his pledge to serve only three terms and left the House in 2001. While in the House, he earned a reputation as a maverick due to his constant battles with House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Most of these stand-offs stemmed from his belief that the Republican caucus was straying from the "Contract With America" that had swept them into power in 1994. Specifically, Coburn was upset that term limits had not been implemented and that Republicans were continuing the pork barrel politics they had opposed under Democratic rule.

In 1997, Coburn introduced an amendment (H.R. 1026) to the Social Security Act called the HIV Prevention Act of 1997. The amendment proposed a number of situations where HIV tests would be mandated or available on request and that all results of HIV tests be made available to state officials.

Coburn wrote Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders in 2003. The book details his perspective on the intraparty debates over the Contract With America and displays his disdain for career politicians. Some of the figures he criticized (such as Gingrich) were already out of office at the time of publishing, but others (such as Dennis Hastert) remained very influential in Congress, which resulted in speculation that some Congressional Republicans wanted no part of Coburn's return to politics.

Senate Career

Nonetheless, in 2004, Coburn was asked by several Republicans to run for the Senate seat being vacated by Don Nickles. During the campaign, he said that he favored the death penalty for abortionists [20] and said that homosexuality was the biggest threat to America. Coburn won by large margins in Tulsa, Oklahoma City and the rural western counties.

In October 2005, Coburn introduced a number of bills targeting pork barrel spending in the federal budget. The best-known of these bills is the Amendment to the Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development appropriations bill (HR 3058).[21] This bill would have transferred funding from the infamous Alaskan Bridge to Nowhere to the rebuilding of the "Twin Spans" bridge in Louisiana. The amendment was defeated 15-82.

Surgery

On June 13, 2007, Sen. Coburn underwent surgery to remove a benign tumor. No complications were encountered and he was expected to return to his duties before the end of the month.^[3]

Money in politics

This section contains links to – and feeds from – money in politics databases. cid=N00005601&cycle=2006

• Revolving door profile for Tom Coburn from the Center for Responsive Politics' OpenSecrets.org website.
• 2006 privately funded travel profile for Tom Coburn from the Center for Responsive Politics' OpenSecrets.org website.
• Personal finance profile for Tom Coburn from the Center for Responsive Politics' OpenSecrets.org website.

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Committees and Coalitions

Committees

• Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs
• Senate Committee on the Judiciary
  • Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights
  • Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs
  • Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law
  • Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security

• Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
  • Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety

• Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
  • Subcommittee on Investigations
  • Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information and International Security
  • Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia

Committee assignments in the 109th Congress (2005-2006)

• Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs
  • Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
  • Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management the Federal Workforce and the District of Columbia
  • Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management Government Information and International Security - Chair

• Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
• Senate Committee on the Judiciary
  • Subcommittee on the Constitution Civil Rights and Property Rights
  • Subcommittee on Corrections and Rehabilitations - Chair
  • Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs
  • Subcommittee on Immigration Border Security and Citizenship
  • Subcommittee on Intellectual Property

Coalitions and Caucuses

• Co-Chair, President's Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, 2001-present
• National Republican Congressional Committee
• Policy Committee
• Member, Fiscal Watch Team, a group of seven senators led by John McCain to combat wasteful government spending.[22]

Boards and other Affiliations

• Member, Promise Keepers

More Background Data

• Background information on Tom Coburn from Project Vote Smart

• Interest group scorecard ratings for Tom Coburn from Project Vote Smart

• Voting record for Tom Coburn from the Washington Post database

• Information on Tom Coburn from Congress Merge

Wikipedia also has an article on Tom Coburn. This article may use content from the Wikipedia article under the terms of the GFDL.

Contact

DC Office:

172 Russell Senate Office Building

Washington, D.C. 20510-3603

Phone: 202-224-5754

Fax: 202-224-6008

Web Email

Website

District Office- Lawton:

711 Southwest D Avenue, Suite 202

Lawton, OK 73501

Phone: 580-357-9878

Fax: 580-355-3560

District Office- Oklahoma City:

2250 West Modelle Street, Suite C

Oklahoma City, OK 73102

Phone: 405-231-4941

Fax: 405-231-5051

District Office- Tulsa:

3310 Mid-Continent Tower

401 South Boston

Tulsa, OK 74103

Phone: 918-581-7651

Fax: 918-581-7195

Twitter

Tom Coburn posts on Twitter at http://twitter.com/porkbarrel/**

Latest posts:

• porkbarrel: Airlines next revenue stream, pay as you go toilets? Free beverage anyone? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29443510/
• porkbarrel: What's for dinner? Kielbasa!
• porkbarrel: What's more important, the economy or that Michelle is "sleeveless in February"?

See all the members of Congress who Twitter

Articles and Resources

Related SourceWatch articles

Sources

1. ↑ Elana Schor, "Sen. Coburn objects to bipartisan disaster-loan legislation," The Hill, July 18, 2007.
2. ↑ Elizabeth Williamson, "Oklahoma Senator Blocks Widely Accepted Gun Bill," The Washington Post, October 3, 2007.
3. ↑ Kevin Bogardus, "Coburn undergoes surgery," The Hill, June 13, 2007.

External Resources

• Official website
• Campaign website
• Technorati Search: Tom Coburn
• Google News Search: Tom Coburn
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• Power Trips: How much did Tom Coburn travel?
• GovTrack Statistics: Tom Coburn
• See how you compare to Tom Coburn

Local blogs and discussion sites

• Okie Funk
• OKBlawg - The Oklahoma Law Blog

External Articles

• Medicine man by Robert Schlesinger, Salon, 9/13/04.
• GOP Senate Candidate Speaks of 'Rampant Lesbianism' in Schools by Ron Jenkins, Associated Press, 10/11/04.
• Ethics Panel Finds Conflict with Coburn's Work as Physician by Jeffrey H. Birnbaum, Washington Post, 4/6/05.
• The Many Faces of Tom Coburn by Max Blumenthal, The Nation, 9/26/05.
• The Senate's Dr. No by George Will, Washington Post, 2/12/06.
• Coburn, McCain, Flake Call for Earmark Reform by Tim Chapman, Townhall, 3/16/06.
• Senators Obama, Coburn Make Unlikely Duo by Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 3/29/06.
• "Dr. Coburn Votes Against Pork," Tulsa Today, May 6, 2006.
• Rob Thormeyer, "Senator Seeks to Create a Single Spending Database," Washington Post, July 31, 2006.
• Dug Begley, "Coburn Critical Of Colleagues," Times-Record, August 18, 2006.
• Kate Ackley, "Universities Divided on Responding to Coburn," Roll Call, September 12, 2006.
• Paul Kiel, "Pork Database Bill Passes House," TPMMuckraker.com September 14, 2006.
• Deborah Zabarenko, "US Senator Blocks Honor for Environmental Pioneer," Reuters, May 28, 2007.
• Karoun Demirjian, "Sen Tom Cobrun Says `Proud of What I Did in Ensign Case," Las Vegas Sun, May 26, 2011.
• Murray Waas, "Disgraced Senator Ensign Back in Legal Jeopardy" Reuters, May 28, 2011.

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