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Tom Coburn: “We, as Members of Congress, don't know what is going on, and in our desire to please and to meet compassionately a need…”

On the recordFebruary 27, 2012
We, as Members of Congress, don't know what is going on, and in our desire to please and to meet compassionately a need, we do try to act, but we act without knowledge because we haven't done the oversight.
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Tom Coburn
Republican · Oklahoma
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Coburn highlights the lack of oversight in Congress leading to uninformed actions.

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