Last week, Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn, both Republicans from Texas, urged the Obama administration to take action against the drug violence along the southern border after U.S. citizens were killed in Juarez. Texas governor Rick Perry echoed the senators’ concerns, asking More…
The list of amendments that Republicans are hoping will derail the health reconciliation bill moving through the Senate this week is an entertaining read, if only because it so clearly illustrates the GOP’s strategy of forcing Democrats to go on the record to vote against some pretty odd things.
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When Congress passed new consumer protections for credit card holders last May, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) successfully attached a not-at-all-related amendment allowing firearms in national parks, so long as gun carriers comply with laws of the state in which the park is located. That law is now scheduled to More…
One in five Americans is either jobless or underemployed, and one in six is without health insurance. What’s the GOP’s response? Gun amendments.
Senate Republicans, led by Sen. Tom Coburn (Okla.), are readying a number of gun-friendly amendments they intend to offer this year on must-pass appropriations bills, Roll Call’s More…
Media Matters has a good catch today, finding conservative Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) placing the blame for the nation’s deficit spending and employment woes squarely on the shoulders of Congress. From a Saturday speech on the Senate floor:
On January 1st, 2009, the national debt was $10.6 trillion.
Few public figures are as quick to embrace their unflattering monikers as Sen. Tom “Dr. No” Coburn (R-Okla.).
“We’re accused of being ‘The Party of No,’” Coburn said on the chamber floor this afternoon. “I want to tell my colleagues and the American public that ‘no’ is a More…
Guess that historic first vote on single-payer health coverage won’t happen this year after all.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today withdrew his Medicare-for-all amendment after Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) launched a procedural move forcing a Senate clerk to read the entire 767-page text. The Hill has the rest:
Somebody read Sen. Judd Gregg’s (R-N.H.) stalling memo.
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) is forcing the Senate to read the 767-page single-payer amendment being pushed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) this week. From The American Spectator:
Typically, Senators offering amendments will ask for unanimous consent
Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) ruffled feathers this month when he drafted a detailed strategy for stalling the health reform bill moving through the upper chamber. Yet Gregg is hardly alone, and health-care legislation is hardly the only target of the GOP’s delay tactics.
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WorldNetDaily has the exclusive: Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has joined five Republican members of Congress in demanding an investigation of the Council on American-Islamic Relation’s lobbying activities, to determine whether it should lose its non-profit status. Read Coburn’s letter after the jump.
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