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							<title><![CDATA[First Principles Are at Stake in Kavanaugh Confirmation]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/10/02/first_principles_are_at_stake_in_kavanaugh_confirmation_138220.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tom Coburn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As a former member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I participated in four Supreme Court confirmation hearings (for John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan). None came close to the divisive and circus-like atmosphere the nation has witnessed during the confirmation...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Let's End Washington's Use-It-or-Lose-It Spending Culture]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/09/25/lets_end_washingtons_use-it-or-lose-it_spending_culture_138153.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tom Coburn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a few weeks, members of Congress will face voters who ought to be in a better mood. The economy is growing twice as fast as it did under the previous administration. Tax and regulatory reform are bringing capital back into the economy. Still, taxpayers feel uncertain and nervous.
One...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Balanced-Budget Amendment Will Not Fix Washington]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/04/27/a_balanced-budget_amendment_will_not_fix_washington_136920.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tom Coburn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Congress is not only irresponsible with the federal budget; it&rsquo;s schizophrenic. On March 23, Congress passed a $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill, with spending hikes expected to raise the deficit over $1 trillion as soon as next year. Three weeks later, the House voted on a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Earmarks Are Inherently Corrupt]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2018/01/11/earmarks-are-inherently-corrupt-congress-shouldnt-resurrect-them/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tom Coburn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Former Republican Sen. Tom Coburn writes that Congress would be insane to resurrect earmarks, which he says are inherently corrupt.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Whatever Happened to 'The Inheritors'?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tom Coburn</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Does the IRS Need Guns?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=why+does+the+irs+need+guns&amp;rlz=1C1CHWA_enUS645US645&amp;oq=why+do&amp;aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i57j69i60j0l3.1511j0j8&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tom Coburn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Special agents at the IRS equipped with AR-15 military-style rifles? Health and Human Services &ldquo;Special Office of Inspector General Agents&rdquo; being trained by the Army&rsquo;s Special Forces contractors? The Department of Veterans Affairs arming 3,700 employees?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Congress, WH Deal Signals New Budget Irresponsibility]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/10/27/we-cant-retreat-defense-budget-caps-tom-coburn-william-ruger-column/74678632/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tom Coburn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What was scheduled to be partisan brinksmanship on the federal budget is now on the verge of being an exercise in bipartisan fiscal irresponsibility.President Obama had drawn a red line by vetoing the recently passed defense authorization act while clearly stating that he wouldn&rsquo;t...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tracking Government Waste--There's an App for That]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tom Coburn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With the rise of supposed outsider candidates, pundits are calling the coming presidential election a referendum on the establishment. They&rsquo;re missing a more profound story, which is the rise of new elites. These are the citizen activists using technology to reshape the status quo...]]></description>
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