Tom Coburn: “I want to seriously question what was just said, and I want to quote: ``The Obey amendment affirms the value of American…”

“I want to seriously question what was just said, and I want to quote: ``The Obey amendment affirms the value of American families.'' Sending $100 million of Social Security money to Jordan is affirming the value of American families? The money comes from our seniors and our children. What we are going to do is we are going to affirm the value of anybody that is not going to pay for the Social Security money that we are going to spend. Who is that? It is not anybody. Because we are all going to pay for it. There are no family values in that. $100 million to Jordan needs to go, and we passed a bill that paid for it by decreasing spending somewhere else. The Obey amendment does not address that issue.”