A doctor and former businessman-turned-congressman, Coburn is the junior senator from Oklahoma. He is known for his willingness to take on his own party and express his socially-conservative views in blunt terms.
First elected to the House in 1994, Coburn was a member of that year's group of ambitious Republican lawmakers. His willingness to criticize the ways of Washington and a series of controversial statements quickly got him noticed. Those statements included: "I favor the death penalty for abortionists and other people who take life," and his assertion that "the gay community has infiltrated the very centers of power. They are the greatest threat, that agenda is the greatest threat to our freedom we face today."
Coburn, Colleagues Explaining Holding Up the #WGDB
via Roll Call
Senate rejects firearms on Army Corps of Engineers lands in win for gun control supporters
WASHINGTON — The Senate has rejected an effort to expand the use of firearms on the heavily visited lands of the Army Corps of Engineers in a congressional victory for gun control supporters.
GSA awards for executives are excessive, inspector finds
Inspector general criticizes awards and appraisal system for agency’s senior executives.
Conservative pro-gun Senator demolishes arguments against background checks
Senator Tom Coburn has sent a letter to colleagues pitching his own plan on background checks. In the process, he has demolished the right's leading arguments against expanding them.
Washington Digest: Reid, Heller split on bill to allow sales tax on online purchases
via Las Vegas Review Journal
Coburn holds up continuing resolution, angering Reid
The hold prevents the bill from coming to a vote in the Senate. Reid says to Coburn that if he's looking for the problem, he should "look in the mirror."
Report ranks Border Patrol punishments, finding long bus trips among least effective
SAN DIEGO — A widely touted Border Patrol initiative to send migrants back to Mexico far from the points they are caught entering the U.S. illegally has one of the worst track records at discouraging people from trying again, according to a new study that offers a detailed assessment of how the agency’s new enforcement strategies are working.
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