Tom Coburn: “I think we ought to fix the real problems. By fixing the symptoms, we delay the time in which we fix the real problems.”

What do they make, Senator Heitkamp, about $6 or $7 billion a year?

That is when we do our best work here.

I am proud of the really collegial effort that we are privileged to take part in.

As stewards of the Federal purse, we should be ensuring that we are doing all that we can to save taxpayer dollars and create efficiency in Government.