Tom Coburn actually said...

When the Senate was created, the whole thought of our founders is that the Senators would think long-term, not parochially.

So the American people have to ask us, what are we doing? How are we doing it?

Why would we not design the--you know, here is the problem with Congress.

However, there is a lot of work that still needs to be done to realize the full potential of the Act and we plan on using this Committee to ...