Jul 17, 2012
We spend $27 billion a year, and we have no metric on any program whatsoever.
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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Jul 17, 2012
The Senate turned down a proposal to require an agency actually to know the programs that they have.
Jul 17, 2012
I think you are making progress, probably better than anywhere else that we are in the Federal Government.
Jul 17, 2012
Action was applied to the real problem, not the symptoms of the problem, and we actually got something done.
Jul 17, 2012
If every agency would follow what they are doing, we would save hundreds of billions of dollars.
Jul 17, 2012
The politicians are more interested in their political careers than they are the best interests of this country.
Jul 17, 2012
I just have one final question and that is on the part of maps and what the Census Bureau is doing with maps versus what can be bought in the private sector.
Jul 17, 2012
I think we also ought to thank President Obama for his nomination, Dr. Groves.
Jul 17, 2012
I am in adamant opposition to all cost-plus contracts other than pure research.
Jul 17, 2012
Well, that is the whole point of changing the way you do this so that you do not get this non-response.
Jul 17, 2012
This Congress has proved it is not up to that. Maybe future Congresses will be.
Jul 16, 2012
Do you have a recommendation for Senator Levin and I in terms of what we could do to make us both more effective, less burdensome, and more efficient?
Jul 16, 2012
Mr. Gallagher, if you would turn to Exhibit 40. The Bank Melli in Iran, prior to September 11, 2001, HSBC had a relationship with this bank in Iran which, because of its home country, would get more scrutiny in the United States.
Jul 16, 2012
So in this great big organization called HSBC, is it fair for one profit center to put another profit center at that kind of risk?
Jul 16, 2012
The kind of answer we get all the time. The fact is, is what that means is things are going to be repeated, and what our whole goal is, is so that things are not repeated.
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