On Wednesday, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) of the Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs penned a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack pointing out waste and abuse within the department that could be cut in order to pay
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) sent a bracing letter to Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday accusing him of failing to redirect wasted money within the Department of Justice from frivolities to necessities. Pointing out that the Department of Justice claimed
Sen. Tom Coburn said Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
Sunday on CBS’ Face the Nation, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) stated that Attorney General Eric Holder should be prevented from investigating himself over accusations concerning Department of Justice targeting of journalists. “Allowing the very person that authorized the two things
As Oklahomans were suffering after Monday’s devastating tornado, Roll Call reporter Meredith Shiner callously wondered on Twitter if Republican lawmakers who were tweeting “thoughts and prayers” to the victims of the deadly tornado would demand that disaster aid be offset. Will
Fiscal hawk Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) is known primarily for attacking reckless and duplicate spending programs in an effort to get our nation’s budgetary woes under control through spending cuts. However, in the NFL and other professional sports leagues, he
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) on Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe: “I think the State Department has real trouble… Having sat on the Intelligence Committee and having seen the review of emails that went back and forth that developed the list,
The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure will hold a hearing today to review a Government Accountability Office (GAO) study on whether the building of additional federal courthouses is justified. The Judiciary’s 5-year Courthouse Project Plan lists 12 projects that
(AP) GOP senator would broaden gun checks, no recordsBy ALAN FRAMAssociated PressWASHINGTONA conservative senator is proposing to greatly broaden the background check system for firearms purchasers but require no records of the transactions as the Senate braced for votes on
I was reminded of Mark Twain’s appropriate comment (or maybe it was Disraeli’s?) when reading an article in Monday’s Wall Street Journal, entitled “Government Payrolls are Facing New Pressures.” Somewhat hyperbolically, the author Sudeep Reddy writes: “The cuts in the public
The U.S. government could save taxpayers up to $8 billion by selling off the estimated 55,000 to 77,000 vacant properties it owns or leases. At a time when the White House says it cannot find the $18,000 a week it
For all the talk about the dramatic spending cuts to hit the federal government under the bipartisan sequestration, the federal government isn’t exactly tightening its belt. According to USAJobs.gov, the job posting site for the feds, approximately 2,200 jobs listings
(Reuters) – Congress foiled the financially beleaguered U.S. Postal Service’s plan to end Saturday delivery of first-class mail when it passed legislation on Thursday requiring six-day delivery. The Postal Service, which lost $16 billion last year, said last month it
Sen. Lindsey Graham was pleased to be invited by Barack Obama to dinner on Wednesday night, saying: The president called Sen. McCain and myself a couple of weeks ago. I’m assuming the president wants to talk seriously about the issues
A US Senate panel approved legislation Thursday that makes gun trafficking a federal crime, but bills banning assault weapons and expanding background checks to nearly all gun buyers face a tougher battle. President Barack Obama applauded the vote by the
The Democrat led Senate Judiciary Committee has four gun-control bills on its agenda today. Besides expanding background checks, the other measures would ban assault weapons and ammunition magazines carrying more than 10 rounds, make gun trafficking and the purchase of
In response to With His Tail Tucked Firmly Between His Legs, Obama Reaches Out to Republicans: He’s meeting with several Republican senatorsfor dinner on Wednesday, (unless it’s canceled due to the snow storm) “as part of his effort to revive
As part of their ongoing war on guns, Senate Democrats are planning to push confirmation of Caitlin Halligan to the DC Court of Appeals. A Senate GOP aide told Breitbart News that she’s the “most anti-Second Amendment nominee” Obama has
(Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s fellow Democrats in the Senate have spread his gun-control proposals across four bills in an effort to get at least some of the less controversial measures – such as expanded background checks for gun buyers
Barack Obama, eager to use the sequester and its attendant budget cuts as a weapon against the GOP, and his Defense Department have asserted that the cuts would threaten vital national security interests, but there is evidence to suggest that neither
This weekend, President Obama deployed his entire team of lackeys to detail the parade of horribles that will supposedly inevitably follow the implementation of the sequester on March 1. The sequester, a package of $1.2 trillion in cuts to future
Republicans, cognizant that they had a dismal record with minorities in the 2012 election, have created a new nonprofit organization called Insight which will target minorities, attempt to launch their careers in Washington and help them flourish once they get
The National Football League (NFL) is still considered a nonprofit organization even though the NFL makes over $9 billion a year in profits, spends over $1.1 million in lobbying, and makes roughly $250 million from the Super Bowl, its signature
What do the National Football League (NFL), the Professional Golf Association (PGA), and the National Hockey League (NHL) have in common with charitable groups? According to a report released by Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn (R), “Seeing the advantage in operating largely
(AP) Sandy relief package swells aid for past disastersBy ANDREW MIGAAssociated PressWASHINGTONConservatives and watchdog groups are mounting a “not-so-fast” campaign against a $50.7 billion Superstorm Sandy aid package that Northeastern governors and lawmakers hope to push through the House this
Common ground is hard to come by in Washington these days, but everyone, it seems, hates tax “loopholes.” Democrats claim they rob the government of revenue and benefit the rich. Republicans say tax loopholes distort free markets by letting the government pick
One out of every $20 spent in a new bill to aid victims of Hurricane Sandy will go to “non-relief-related pork,” says American Majority Action Spokesman Ron Meyer in an email to Breitbart News. On Friday, the U.S. Senate passed
(AP) Guest lineups for the Sunday news showsWASHINGTONGuest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows: NBC’s “Meet the Press” _ President Barack Obama. ___ ABC’s “This Week” _ Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.; Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz. ___ ___ CBS’ “Face
On Dec. 5, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) released a report providing an overview of the $35 million the Department of Homeland Security has spent on grant programs since 2003. Ostensibly, the money was to be spent in a way that
Breitbart News recently sat down with Oklahoma Senator Dr. Tom Coburn to get his thoughts on the fiscal cliff and what Republicans can do to win the 2014 midterm elections. On November 15 Dr. Coburn gave a speech at the
Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn released a scathing report on wasteful spending at the Department of Homeland Security. The report concentrates mainly on the grant program, Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) which is meant to help at-risk cities strengthen their security
Senator Tom Coburn’s (R-OK) latest report on spending by the Department of Defense shows, among other things, defense spending used for a lecture series involving fictional alien species. “Did Jesus Die for Klingons too?” was just one session at a
Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) hopes to stop a major defense spending bill in its tracks now that Democrats have added an amendment that allows them to take away the guns of certain military veterans. The amendment contains language that bans
Grover Norquist, head of Americans For Tax Reform, was interviewed by Neil Cavuto on Fox today about the fact that some senators are abandoning their commitment to his no-tax pledge. Saxby Chambliss, Lindsay Graham, John McCain, Lamar Alexander, Tom Coburn
Today, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) released a report on Defense Department spending that has nothing to do with defense. “The threat of our national debt can be defeated by reviewing every department, every program, and expenditure within the federal budget,
Sen. Tom Coburn’s Wastebook 2012 is replete with fantastic examples of idiotic federal government spending. When the left complains that tax revenues aren’t high enough, the proper answer is that we should start by cutting stupidities like the “Prom Week”
According to Sen. Tom Coburn’s Wastebook 2012, released this morning, the federal government spent $30,000 on a grant to University of Washington and Cornell University researchers. Their task: to determine whether “gaydar” – the ability to instantly tell whether someone
A new jobs training oversight report by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) found that a federally-funded Oklahoma Job Corps program spent around $76,000 per person to help youth secure minimum wage jobs. The report, released Tuesday, comes 18 months after a Government Accountability
“Both parties have equally participated in abandoning the limited role of the federal government,” says Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma), whose new book, The Debt Bomb: A Bold Plan to Stop Washington from Bankrupting Our Economy, argues that Republicans and Democrats
The same federal government that wants to take over the U.S. healthcare system may also be the same federal government who is unwittingly funneling billions of Medicare and Medicaid dollars to Castro’s Cuba. So worry Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Tom
