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<title><![CDATA[Sen. Tom Coburn - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/17540.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Sen. Tom Coburn]]></description><category domain="17540">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[A Lack of Funding Isn't the VA's Problem]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/07/25/a_lack_of_funding_isnt_the_vas_problem_123447.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Tom Coburn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As VA reform continues to languish in Congress pressure is growing on members to solve the problem with Washington&rsquo;s oldest solution &ndash; more funding.
As Garry Augustine, Executive Director of Disabled American Veterans Disabled Veterans, argued recently in the Wall Street...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Best Obamacare Alternative]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/why-freedom-is-the-best-health-care-alternative/article/2549894</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Tom Coburn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Now that the Affordable Care Act's subsidies have kicked in and millions have supposedly enrolled in exchanges, much is being said about Republicans backing away from repeal and replace. I would propose a more honest and accurate phrase about what comes next: rescue and recovery.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Porky's II: The Earmarkers Strike Back]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304393704579532000593322642</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Tom Coburn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Remember the $223 million in federal funds earmarked in 2005 for the "bridge to nowhere" in Alaska? The project stalled but the public outrage it sparked led to a 2011 decision by Congress to end earmarking. Well, it looks like the bridge-to-nowhere crowd is ready to get the scaffolding...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare Hasn't Slowed Growth of Health Costs]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2014/01/09/obamacare-hasnt-slowed-the-growth-of-health-care-costs-its-the-economy-stupid/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Tom Coburn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Obama administration advisors and supporters have been arguing that Obamacare and its grand designs to reshape health care have been a primary reason why health care costs have slowed.  Yet, the facts and data the real world &#194;&#150; rather than the world of unreality in which people can keep...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Year Washington Fled Reality]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303345104579282881750665074</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Tom Coburn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The past year may go down not only as the least productive ever in Washington but as one of the worst for the republic.In both the executive branch and Congress, Americans witnessed an unwinding of the country's founding principles and of their government's most basic responsibilities....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the House Can Get Immigration Reform Right]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalreview.com/article/352918/how-house-can-get-immigration-reform-right-tom-coburn</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Tom Coburn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Now that the Senate has passed a flawed $46 billion immigration bill it&rsquo;s time for the House to be the higher chamber and start over. Do what the Senate failed to do. Pass a bill &mdash; or series of bills &mdash; that balances the two fundamental American values at stake in this...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Washington's Leadership Crisis]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/12/washingtons_leadership_crisis_118786.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Tom Coburn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[More than four years after the Great Recession the American people are still waiting for a real recovery. Household income has actually declined the past five years while economic growth has struggled to outpace inflation. As UCLA economist Edward Leamer said recently, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[My Bogus Dilemma on Tornado Aid]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/23/opinion/coburn-disaster-relief-oklahoma/index.html?hpt=op_t1</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Tom Coburn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[(CNN) -- Millions of Americans have been shocked by the devastation caused by the tornadoes in Oklahoma. Having toured the area, it's impossible to put the scope of the damage in words. Not just homes but entire neighborhoods are gone.Americans also may have been surprised to hear about...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Time for Smart Budget Cuts]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324128504578344534093602790.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Tom Coburn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Now that budget sequestration is under way, it looks less like the fiscal apocalypse that had been predicted and more like a long-overdue intervention with politicians who are addicted to borrowing and spending.I agree with President Obama that sequestration's across-the-board rather...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Truth About Ryan &amp; His Critics]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444443504577599120307000312.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Tom Coburn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The more voters learn about Congressman Paul Ryan's leadership style and his thoughtful and creative approach to solving problems, the more they will decide that the Romney-Ryan ticket looks presidential and electable. That's why there has been a coordinated effort in recent days to ramp...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Both Parties' Spending Bankrupted U.S.]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/blog/2012/07/17/sen-tom-coburn-how-both-parties-bankrupt</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Tom Coburn</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Both parties have equally participated in abandoning the limited role of the federal government," says Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma), whose new book, The Debt Bomb: A Bold Plan to Stop Washington from Bankrupting Our Economy, argues that Republicans and Democrats together have brought...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Grows Gov't Not the Economy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/18/obama-is-not-doing-fine/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Tom Coburn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama&#194;&#146;s claim that &#194;&#147;the private sector is doing fine&#194;&#148; is sure to be repeated over and over and over again the next few months. And the White House will continue to argue that the president&#194;&#146;s comments were taken out of context. That&#194;&#146;s missing the point. The context is the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Is Senate Stalling on Debt Debate?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-is-the-senate-stalling-on-the-debt-debate/2011/05/18/AFpqEm6G_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Tom Coburn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Where is the Senate? Our country is facing the greatest threat  to our freedom and future since 1941. Any honest view of our debt,  deficits, size of government and demographic challenges shows we must  make major changes if we are going to pass on the American way of life  to our...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Safety Net When Nation Is Bankrupt]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/reform_or_go_broke_AxZmLn5iEzaEZohOJPB23J</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Tom Coburn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan said  Congress needs to "move the debate from billions in spending cuts to  trillions" when he unveiled his budget this week. He's right. The  American people clearly support reducing spending. Our next task is to  convince them why sweeping...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Politicians Must Come Together to Fix Debt]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-shutdown-of-our-economy/2011/04/04/AFKwF0cC_story.html?hpid=z4</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Tom Coburn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With a budget deadline looming, politicians in Washington are flirting with a shutdown, not of the government but our economy. In the face of what Erskine Bowles, co-chair of the president&rsquo;s own fiscal commission,  frequently calls the most predictable crisis in our history, the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Will Need Honesty to Solve Debt Problem]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/03/16/entitlements_have_to_be_part_of_deficit_reduction_109246.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Tom Coburn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With the 2012 elections casting a glow on the horizon, politicians in Washington are busy positioning their arguments and rallying their troops.  Nowhere is this pandering more obvious than with Social Security.  Apparently, Social Security is no longer going bankrupt and has been...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[To Close Fiscal Deficit, We Must First Close Our Leadership Deficit]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/02/15/to_close_fiscal_deficit_we_must_first_close_our_leadership_deficit_108893.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Tom Coburn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The President and Congress will never close our fiscal deficit until we close our leadership deficit. Our debt and deficit crisis cannot be solved without strong presidential leadership and this budget does not come close to reflecting the severity of the problems before us.
The only way...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Control Govt Spending Or Face &quot;Apocalyptic Pain&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/12/26/sen_coburn_control_government_spending_or_face_apocalyptic_pain.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Tom Coburn</author>
							<description><![CDATA["The history of republics is they average 200 years of life. And they all fail in the history over fiscal matters. They rot from within before they collapse or are attacked," Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) told "Fox News Sunday."]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Facts &amp; Fiction About U.S.-Haiti Effort]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/OpEd-Contributor/Sen-Tom-Coburn-Facts-and-fiction-about-the-US-105372593.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Tom Coburn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With  the Haiti recovery and reconstruction effort moving at an unacceptably  slow rate, many are asking hard questions about the U.S. response, and  rightly so.However, the answer that emerged after former President Bill  Clinton&rsquo;s recent trip, which followed a chaotic non-debate...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[For Republicans, the Moment for Reform Has Arrived]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/24/for_republicans_the_moment_for_reform_has_arrived_107297.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Tom Coburn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For Republicans, the most important question leading into November is not how many seats we might gain, but what will we do if we gain them.  Having lived through the rise and fall of the 1994 Republican Revolution I'm convinced that if the Republican Party does not reform itself this...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[By Her Own Words, Kagan Will Violate Her Oath]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/231197/her-own-words-kagan-will-violate-her-oath/sen-tom-coburn</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Tom Coburn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Elena Kagan provided key exchanges about the Commerce Clause, natural rights, and other issues that have convinced me to vote against her nomination. Based on her own testimony, she&rsquo;ll violate her oath as soon as she&rsquo;s sworn in.The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Financial Reform's Empty Promises]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/07/15/financial_reforms_empty_promises_106324.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Tom Coburn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With President Obama expected to sign financial reform legislation into law in the next few days the public is hearing grandiose rhetoric about the bill's merits.  The president has promised the bill will "end an era of irresponsibility" while Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Politicians Should Say No More Often]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/05/24/politicians_should_say_no_more_often.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Tom Coburn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week's election results confirmed, if anything, that the mood of the electorate is decidedly anti-Establishment.  Across America, candidates anointed by the Establishment - the president, congressional leaders, party leaders, etc. - are being taken out in places like Pennsylvania,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Ideological Crusade Called Reform]]></title>
							<link>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts1272;_ylt=AlKC2bRBppLyxhhVtxFZgvKs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNiczM4YXY4BGFzc2V0A3luZXdzLzIwMTAwMzE3L3luZXdzX3RzMTI2MwRjY29kZQNtb3N0cG9wdWxhcgRjcG9zAzMEcG9zAzExBHB0A2hvbWVfY29rZQRzZWMDeW5fdG9wX3N0b3J5BHNsawNyZWxhdGVk</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Tom Coburn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D.Congress's latest final push in its ideological crusade called health reform is shaping up to be an act of historic arrogance and deception.  For months, the American people have been telling Congress to scrap the current bills. A recent CNN poll found...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Washington Needs to Hear Wake Up Call]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/OpEd-Contributor/Massachusetts-election-was-a-referendum-on-Big-Government-82202832.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Tom Coburn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Massachusetts voters sent Washington a clear message this week that they want members of Congress to change their behavior today &#194;&#150; not after the next election, but today.  Also, the election was not a referendum on President Obama, health care, or any single issue per se, but on the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Voting Against Government-Run Health Care]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/12/24/voting_against_government-run_health_care_99671.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Tom Coburn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This vote is indeed historic.  This Congress will be remembered for its arrogance, corruption and stupidity.  In the year of 2009, a Congress ignored the coming economic storm and impending bankruptcy of our entitlement programs and embarked on an ideological crusade to bring our nation...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Government Guidelines Will Lead to Rationing]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703514404574588842779569168.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Tom Coburn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I recently suggested that seniors will die sooner if Congress actually implements the Medicare cuts in the health-care bill put forward by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. My colleagues who defend the bill&#194;&#151;none of whom have practiced medicine&#194;&#151;predictably dismissed my concern as a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Health Reform Faces Moment Of Untruth]]></title>
							<link>http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=511167</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lessons for the White House from the Doctor Fix Debacle]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/10/27/lessons_for_the_white_house_from_the_doctor_fix_debacle_98884.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Tom Coburn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The day after White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's Clintonesque plan to triangulate and divide Republicans and doctors failed a major newspaper published this headline: "Democrats Lose Big Test Vote on Health Legislation." The title was so fair and balanced many media obsessed White...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Begin Health Reform by Ending Fraud]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/09/15/health_reform_should_begin_with_ending_fraud_98308.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Tom Coburn</author>
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