Tom Coburn

As a matter of fact, my public statements are that there should be no tax cuts unless you do spending cuts to pay for them.

I'm part of the hippie generation, but the question is, should this be a priority for this body over the priority of women and children?

Anybody who puts a priority for a local project ahead of the best interest of this country, I believe is not fulfilling their oath to the office. And that's whether they are Republican or Democrat.

I would note, just on the hate crimes legislation, that the perpetrators of the heinous crimes against Matthew Shepard had full justice carried out against them. That is true, is it not?

The prime example that the government is broken. And how do we fix that? You fix that by integrity and being confident that you will do what you say will do. And the American people said, you have been telling us this.

I note a couple points. This does not force any kid, 200 percent or under, to go into the premium assistance program. A family making $62,000 a year--that is not a low-income kid. As a matter of fact, 21 States in this country have less…

It requires the university to know what they are doing, which is one of the things we found in my subcommittee--that they didn't know what they were doing. They weren't aware of where the money was going or how they were spending the…

What we are trying to get is this. It is true that the Byrd amendment makes that illegal. The problem is that nobody has to certify it. So whether it is illegal or not, it is obviously happening. Yet we don't have any proactive basis going…

What I am looking at is for them to, in a positive, forward way, assert that as they take Federal funds, those funds are not used to, in fact, pay a lobbyist. When a university President calls you, he is not calling as a lobbyist. He has a…

We ought to figure out why a college education and the costs thereof are growing twice as fast as health care, which is four times as fast as everything else in this country. Something isn't right. Transparency is the key to getting…

No, they aren't published. And they're not out there. I couldn't find them if I wanted to.

Well, they lied to the American public.

We have failed to instill the confidence in the American people in the Congress that we are about doing what is in the best long-term interest of our country. It is not about being against immigration or for immigration. It is not about…

The prime example that the government is broken. And how do we fix that? You fix that by integrity and being confident that you will do what you say will do. And the American people said, you have been telling us this.

Well, they lied to the American public.

Well, they lied to the American public.

So therefore your argument, I believe, is moot, because if you have that in the underlying bill, then that problem is solved and you should be able to support this amendment.

No, they are published. And they're not out there. I couldn't find them if I wanted to.

Well, they lied to the American public. It was a game.

Well, they lied to the American public. It was a game.

Every 10 years, they are going to have to bring back the sand the ocean naturally washes away from the beach because we have not done what needs to be done, which is a long, extended growing, to help the beach replenish itself.

According to the Corps, every 5 years we will pump the same amount of sand up there, and in 50 years we will be doing the same thing again. This isn't a long-term fix; this is a short-term fix, according to the Corps, not according to…

That is inaccurate; 21 percent of the ATP grants over the last 14 years went to Fortune 500 companies.

The reason you ought to vote for this sense of the Senate--it doesn't say anything about authorizing. What it says is, and the American people expect, if we are going to create new programs, we ought to get rid of the programs that are not…

It was in there, but say we were not in the war and we were still down to $200 billion--let's take that off the table. Say we have a $200 billion deficit, and we can demonstrate from our subcommittee hearings $200 billion a year in waste…