Tom Coburn actually said...

The Department of Defense paid $8 billion in unwarranted bonuses to contractors for weapons programs that had severe cost overruns.

Americans think we do not get it up here.

NASA paid Boeing a bonus of $425 million for work on the Space Station that ran 8 years late.

Medicare and Medicaid paid out more than $312 million last year for quality care bonuses to nursing homes that provided below-average care.