Tom Coburn actually said...

"I believe that this is an important issue that we have to get at."

"It is the responsibility of each individual agency to make sure they comply with that."

"Why should you automate it? Why shouldn't you force your contractors to automate it and present it to you?"

"To me this is not a political issue. This is an issue of us failing to do our job in a proper way when it comes to security clearances."