Word: coburn
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...joins Republicans like Rick Santorum, a darling of the religious right, to work on legislation on the rare issues where they agree. (One recent bill provides $90 million to research the effects of video games on the cognitive development of children.) Obama is now working with Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn, one of the chamber?s most conservative members, to demand that President Bush appoint someone to act as a chief financial officer to oversee Katrina spending. Clinton, who focused mainly on domestic policy issues before she entered the Senate, has emerged as a key player on defense issues; Obama...
...Katrina has entered a new phase: the financial free-for-all. The President was careful not to get specific about what the "generosity of a united country" might cost, but economists estimate that Katrina's final price tag could easily top $200 billion. While frugal Republicans like Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Arizona Representative Jeff Flake (one of 11 members of the House to vote against the President's relief bill) instinctively called for budget cuts to offset the cost of the recovery effort, few cuts seem politically realistic. And much to the dismay of many of his colleagues...
...Divestment was the most important,” says Frederick R. Coburn, Jr. ’80. “Everyone came out for that. South Africa protests probably drew half the campus two or three times...
...Coburn is passionately opposed to abortion, has called excess government spending evil and blames the sickly state of Social Security and Medicare on career politicians-- a Washington class he attacks with special credibility since his career in the House ended when he voluntarily stepped down to honor a campaign pledge that he would serve no more than three terms. Yet he maintains close ties to the Bush clan. Former President George H.W. Bush showed up to campaign for him. So did James Dobson, head of the conservative activist group Focus on the Family...
...Coburn's opponent, Democratic Congressman Brad Carson, couldn't pull the same kind of weight, and in fact didn't dare try: most Democrats with a national reputation are radioactive in Oklahoma. Despite Carson's declared support for gun rights, tax cuts, the Iraq war and a constitutional ban on gay marriage, Coburn managed to paint him as a liberal. Once he gets to Washington, Coburn may apply the same label to some of his fellow Republicans: budget deficits drive him crazy, a lonely cause in a Congress that these days winks at trillions in red ink. Given that Coburn...