Jun 11, 2013
I ask if the Senator would mind yielding to me before I go to my next meeting. I will only take 3 or 4 minutes.
Tom Coburn
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Tom Coburn is a former U.S. Senator from Oklahoma, serving from 2005 to 2015. A member of the Republican Party, Coburn was known for his fiscal conservatism and advocacy for government transparency. He was a practicing physician before entering politics, which influenced his views on healthcare and government spending. Throughout his tenure, he was a vocal critic of wasteful government expenditures and often called for reforms to improve accountability in Congress.
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Jun 11, 2013
Will you commit to ensuring that significant policy and guidance documents undergo interagency review as directed by E.O. 12866 and E.O. 13563, including interagency review, before documents are released to the public?
Jun 11, 2013
What we are going to see is two refineries in Oklahoma close within a year, year and a half, because they cannot afford to buy the Renewable Fuel Credits.
Jun 11, 2013
If you break it down, that is $14,678 per family in this country, and most of it is well intended, but a lot of it has a ton of unintended consequences.
Jun 11, 2013
One of the things Senator Carper said is common sense. Where do you get that? How do you develop it?
Jun 11, 2013
My worry at OIRA is that the intent is good, the heart, the compassion is right, but the background reference for having knowledge on how regulations will truly impact an industry... is missing.
Jun 11, 2013
The President reaffirmed the principle of sound regulations with Executive Order 13563.
Jun 11, 2013
It would take one adjustment to that regulation by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and all that would go away, and it will not make any difference in the long term in terms of our environmental consequences because we are still going…
Jun 10, 2013
Just as a little aside, the Federal Government's balance sheet has $86 trillion worth of liabilities, and all the assets in the United States of America are under $80 trillion.
Jun 10, 2013
Putting controls in and making people responsible and accountable is very important, and if the 2020 census is not done online, we ought to shoot ourselves.
Jun 10, 2013
One of the things that I have noticed, 3 years ago I outlined an Air Force program, an IT program, said we ought to cancel it. We did not cancel it. We canceled it this year and paid an $80 million cancellation fee.
Jun 10, 2013
TechStat works, does it not? And the fact that DOD has no programs, everything is green for DOD, which means they are ducking having TechStat work on 20 to 30 programs that are in trouble.
Jun 10, 2013
Is part of the reason we are having turnover because we cannot compete in the IT field for CIOs?
Jun 10, 2013
Is that something we should legislate on to give agencies more flexibility in terms of payments to be able to be competitive in the IT field?
Jun 10, 2013
If we could actually execute what GAO has outlined, you are talking $300 billion over the next 10 years.
Jun 10, 2013
My real concern is, as I said in my opening statement, how do we empower CIOs.
Jun 10, 2013
The way you get rid of trillion dollar deficits is a billion dollars at a time.
Jun 10, 2013
We did not come anywhere close to saving $24 billion for the American people.
Jun 10, 2013
We are well intentioned. You are well intentioned. But we do not give people the authority to do what we ask them to do.
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