Tom Coburn actually said...

"I thought that was a pretty good idea, and the homeless groups said, in part, in response, 'Well, if you do that, what the appropriators will do is they will'--let us say we had, like $5 as an example..."

"We have something we call 'maintenance of effort' that we use in other programs, educational programs, when there is Federal money, we say to States, 'You have to maintain effort.'"

"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."

"the BBG is "the most worthless organization in the Federal Government.""