Tom Coburn

We need to establish a different kind of culture. We need to establish a culture of thrift.

What Senator Leahy wants to do is great to help people. But the one question we have not asked is--and we are going to be asked to ask it all the time from here forward given where we are--is it a Federal responsibility to supply these…

This amendment eliminates Essential Air Service when the average enplanements are less than 10 a day. There is no way we can afford, given our financial situation, to subsidize Essential Air Service for the airports that have less than 10…

Amendment No. 64 is an amendment by myself and Senator Begich from Alaska. It is an orphan earmark amendment where we instruct the agencies to eliminate moneys that have been sitting for 9 years or longer and have not expended it. That is…

I told Senator Leahy last night that I would be happy to lift my objection once my amendments were pending, and we can have a debate on his nongermane amendment.

I plan on sending a letter to Google. And with the authority that we have to subpoena, if they do not answer us, then I will seek my colleague and we will subpoena an answer to these questions since they refuse to come and testify.

I know there were a lot of false rumors about our bill last year, and I fought back on those.

I do not think the Bush administration did a good job on IP. I do not think this administration has done a good job in protecting intellectual property.

This bill hasn't even been through a committee. We haven't had the debate in our committee on this bill to know if it is the best thing to do.

Think about all the sources of food we get in this country. And the diverse places they come from and, yet only 34 people get a staph poisoning or E. coli non-toxigenic poisoning or a salmonella poisoning or a ursinia poisoning or a…

I support the goals of this legislation and believe that slavery, in any form, is morally reprehensible. Sex trafficking is a global epidemic, and we should endeavor to eliminate this industry, especially due to its effects on minors who…

I support the goals of this legislation and believe slavery, in any form, is morally reprehensible. Sex trafficking is a global epidemic, and we should endeavor to eliminate this industry, especially due to its effects on minors who are…

The Department may have leaked the proposed regulations to parties supporting the Administration's position and investors who stand to benefit from the failure of the proprietary school sector.

Today, I, along with Senators LeMieux, DeMint, and Inhofe, am introducing the FAST Act. What the FAST Act does is attack the $100 billion worth of waste and fraud in Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP. The status quo in Medicaid and Medicare is…

The threats our Nation faces today are greater than any time in my lifetime.

I think the importance of today's hearing is not just to have a hearing, but how do we get out of this mess.

With the budget situations that we have, the last place we want to skimp is in defending this country.

I think we ought to fix the real problems. By fixing the symptoms, we delay the time in which we fix the real problems.

I appreciate the Senator's offer, but I cannot do that. I also want him to know that this bill is not going to solve the problem of that gentleman from Owasso, OK. This bill is not going to solve that situation because we are not fixing…

The earlier statements of this will solve the problem, but yet we are not going to find the money. It should be 100 percent that we are going to find the money to do this.

With a large deficit that is the fault of everybody in Congress the last 20 years, not one Administration or not one President and not one party, what are we going to do together to solve the problems to get our country out of the hole we…

So you do not think it will be beneficial.

The fact that somebody was not prosecuted, that does not mean anything because the Department of Justice (DOJ) is not going to prosecute them if they fall under a certain dollar amount.

You are better than you were.

You have bipartisan agreement. We want to fix the problems.