Tom Coburn actually said...

"When is it that you are going to have suspicious claims stopped pay?"

"As recently as July 2011, Senator Tom Coburn introduced an amendment to eliminate the presumption of service connection for Vietnam War veterans exposed to the poison Agent Orange."

"Well, it is because we are lazy legislators. What we decide is we will pass a bill and grant maximum flexibility to the bureaucracy."

"We are responsible for allowing all of the duplication that has come because we have passed the legislation and appropriations bills that have actually caused it."