Tom Coburn actually said...

"the costs of the COPS program outweigh the benefits by more than a billion dollars."

"Any grant program that has a grant application ought to have a stipulation that whoever is the grantee affirms that they are not getting another Federal grant for exactly the same thing."

"tens, if not hundreds, of billions of dollars could be saved through the consolidation or elimination of such programs."

"Our tendency to put a parochial benefit into the things we do in Congress has driven us to lead to all the duplication."