Tom Coburn: “Is it not the offeror of the amendment who places in order the amendments that are called up and lays the other…”

We need a drug development system that encourages innovators to pursue breakthrough cures.

People--if they are not being held accountable, they do not want to be held accountable--and transparency is what holds them accountable.

the question is--and my advice to the Committee is to look at the roles that the Federal Government has taken over that would be better and more efficiently done at the State level.

Right now, the unfunded liabilities of this country, with its debt, are $142 trillion.