Tom Coburn: “The implication is not punishment. The implication is how do we drive efficiency within the bureaucracy of our…”

“The implication is not punishment. The implication is how do we drive efficiency within the bureaucracy of our Government. Necessity is the mother of invention, and if in fact there is less money, we will drive invention to get the job done in a more efficient way. We have done that throughout our entire history as a country. I agree with the gentleman, there are a lot of bureaucracies in the State of Oklahoma within the Education Department of the State of Oklahoma. But where do we start drawing that line? Oklahoma should clean up its bureaucracies. But we should not clean up bureaucracies in Washington because Oklahoma has failed to do it? I am not saying they have, but should they have failed to do it, that should not limit what we do.”