On the recordDecember 15, 2009
Senator Coburn threatened to delay the Senate health-care debate by reading a 767-page amendment out loud.
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transcripts.cnn.comSenator Coburn threatened to delay the Senate health-care debate by reading a 767-page amendment out loud.
Senator Coburn's threat to delay Senate proceedings regarding health care.
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I just do not think it works. And I want to be humane. We have a moral obligation to the least of these, folks who do not have a place to live, but there has got to be a better way to do this.
What we need is a simpler, fairer, and flatter tax code, so that everybody pays something.