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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
Democrats walked into a Monday afternoon news conference to criticize Sen. Tom Coburn, looked into the audience and saw ... Tom Coburn. “I’m going to enjoy the festivities,” said the Oklahoma Republican, waiting for Sens. Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii), Jon...
Tags: Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, Oklahoma Democratic Party, Congress, Iraq, wounded veterans
Guess who else wants to pull the plug on granny and kill Sarah Palin's baby? Rachel Maddow showed Thursday night that not long ago Rush Limbaugh promoted death panels on his own radio show, Newt Gingrich sung their praises in the pages of the Washington...
Tags: health care, Tom Daschle, Sarah Palin, death panels, Tom Coburn, Alaska, care reform, Oklahoma Republican, Newt Gingrich, Rachel Maddow
Perkins, Oklahoma. 2.) $1 billion for FutureGen in Mattoon, Illinois is the “biggest earmark of all time” for a power plant that may never work. 3.) $15 million for “shovel-ready” repairs to little-used bridges in rural Wisconsin are given priority...
Tags: Oklahoma Sen. Coburn, Tom Coburn, stimulus projects, federal stimulus, Dr. Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, Florida, coburn released, republican senator
A slot operations manger works on the first slot machine in a Pennsylvania casino back in 2007. Oklahoma’s Indian gaming industry racked up double-digit increases in revenue last year, according to figures released Wednesday by the National Indian Gaming...
Tags: Oklahoma Republican, obama administration, Oklahoma Indian, Obama, highways construction, federal highways
Dr. Tom Coburn announced today at the Tulsa Press Club that he will seek re-election in 2010 to a second term in the United States Senate. With passionate finality, Dr. Coburn declared that if elected this will be his final term. “This decision has...
Tags: Tom Coburn, Tom Coburn, Dr. Coburn, Republican Coburn, Dr. Tom Coburn, Tulsa Press Club, Oklahoma Republican, coburn announced, Senate
Oklahoma congressman John Sullivan says he's entered the Betty Ford Center in California to receive treatment for his addiction to alcohol. The Republican legislator released a statement Friday saying he had checked himself in to the treatment center...
Tags: John Sullivan, Oklahoma Republican, treatment center, California, Ford Center, First Congressional District, oklahoma congressman, ford clinic, Betty Ford, receive treatment
The most recent version of the Coburn omnibus is a 1,000-plus page package that consists of more than 160 different provisions governing various land-use issues. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) tried to move many of the provisions through...
Tags: Senate, Tom Coburn, public lands, Oklahoma, lands bills, oklahoma republican
Rep. John Boehner of West Chester was elected by his colleagues Wednesday to continue as House Republican leader, putting him in the difficult spot of leading a smaller party after congressional and White House losses. House Republicans lost 20 seats...
Tags: House Republicans, O.C. GOP pans House, National Republican Congressional Committee, Oklahoma Republican, U.S. House, White House, John Boehner, cole drops