Tom Coburn: “I think we ought to cut a lot of things, but the first thing we ought to do is cut out claiming something that isn't…”

“I think we ought to cut a lot of things, but the first thing we ought to do is cut out claiming something that isn't true. What we need to claim is that we can live within the same parameters that every family in this country has to live within. We are not doing it on this bill. It is not about whether the FBI is funded. It is not about the ATF or the Drug Enforcement Agency-- it is about priorities. There is just $640 million worth of earmark nonpriority things in this bill. So we could get $640 million tomorrow out of the earmarks that are not priorities, and I will be happy to list for anybody the total for every State, for every Senator who has a priority they think is more important than families having to live within a budget that they have to live with every day. This isn't a debate about the President. This is a debate about the future of our country starting to live within the means of which we have.”