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Coburn Denies Role in Negotiating Ensign Affair Payoff
New York :: NY :: USA | 1 day ago
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Sen. Tom Coburn on Sunday denied that he had a role in helping Sen. John Ensign negotiate a payoff of a former aide and close friend, whose wife had an affair with the Nevada Republican senator.
Tags: John Ensign, Cindy Hampton, Doug Hampton, New York, Hampton Virginia, Politics, Promise Keepers, John Ensign, Tom Coburn, Coburn, Law Crime
GOP senator backs off threat to read health bill
Washington :: DC :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility Republican Sen. Tom Coburn is backing off his threat to require that the Senate read the 2,074-page health care bill because some GOP colleagues aren't supporting the effort. The Oklahoma lawmaker said there's uncertainty about whether reading the bill...
Tags: Senate, Washington, Daniel Akaka, VoteVets.org, Military personnel, Tom Coburn, Veteran, Health Medical Pharma, Social Issues, Politics, Republican Party, Coburn, Respite care, Long-term care, Family, Caregiver, Dick Durbin, Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act
Inhofe claims victory on global warming
Washington :: DC :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Sen. Jim Inhofe, perhaps Congress' most vocal skeptic of man-made global warming, essentially declared victory Wednesday in a lengthy speech on the Senate floor. "I proudly declare 2009 as the 'Year of the Skeptic,' the year in which scientists who question...
Tags: global warming, Oklahoma Transportation, Oklahoma Republican, Congressional, Washington, Environmental skepticism, Jim Inhofe, United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Environment, Politics, Oklahoma, Coburn, Tom Coburn, Gary Ridley
Coburn to offer amendment on wounded veterans bill
New York City :: NY :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday an agreement has been reached to allow a vote on a bill to help severely wounded veterans that has been held up Sen. Tom Coburn. Reid, D-Nev., said the agreement also calls for a vote on an amendment by...
Tags: Tom Coburn, wounded veterans, New York City, Tom Coburn, Coburn, Health Medical Pharma, Politics, Social Issues
Test scores win students in Johns Hopkins program recognition
Hockessin :: DE :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility A Newark resident was one of 17 eighth-graders who won Top in Country awards in annual testing by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth. John Daniel Coburn of Sanford was one of five honored for results on the SAT mathematics test. This...
Tags: Red Lion Christian, Tatnall, Hockessin, Sanford, John Daniel Coburn, Elkton Maryland, Sanford North Carolina, Tatnall School, Hockessin Delaware, Coburn, Education
Senator DeMint puts forth legislation to spread the wealth- term limits
In an effort to abolish gridlock in Washington D.C., Senator Jim DeMint-R SC hopes to enact the first new Constitutional Amendment in 17 years - term limits. When one thinks of stalwart Senators, names like Kennedy, Byrd, and Specter come to mind....
Tags: DeMint, term limits, Coburn
FAIL: Republican Outreach To Gay Community
Republican Tom Coburn co-author an article for The Advocate, the premiere “gay” magazine, where he tried to explain it to the gay community that they’re best interest is to oppose the Democrats’ healthcare reform attempts. ...
Tags: coburn, republican, GOP, healthcare, health, care, advocate, gay, rights
On spending: It’s Coburn vs. Krugman
Anchorage :: AK :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility But Krugman disputed the senator’s claims. “Um, I’m not a political scientist,” Krugman wrote on his blog. “Also, I can’t quite remember when I last received NSF support, but it has to be at least 20 years ago — and it was, of course, for work on international...
Who's the nuttiest member of congress?
I was wondering who was the nuttiest member of our congress. Sheesh, it's hard to decide. But I have nailed it down to a few. There is Michelle Bachman, congresswoman from Minnesota and Senators Tom Coburn and James Inhofe, both of Oklahoma....
Tags: bachman, coburn, inhofe, gays, same sex marriage
Did you know reading Playboy makes you gay?
In a so called "Values Voters" conference, Bill O'Reilly, giving a speech urging the media to cover conservatives , the media were kicked out and banned from covering it! Or that was the supposed topic, it is hard to tell because the media were...
Tags: gay, Coburn, Bill O\'Reilly (political commentator), missile defense
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