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  U.S. Senate: Senators Home > Senator Tom Coburn
Tom A. Coburn, M.D. was elected to the U.S. Senate November 2, 2004.
From 1970-78, Coburn was the manufacturing manager at the Ophthalmic Division of Coburn Optical Industries in Colonial Heights, Virginia.
After the family business was sold, Coburn changed the course of his life by returning to school to become a physician.
www.senate.gov /pagelayout/senators/one_item_and_teasers/coburn.htm   (716 words)

  
 Bambooweb: Tom Coburn
Coburn was a physician and a deacon in the Southern Baptist Church until he ran for the House of Representatives as a Republican.
As a Congressman, Coburn opposed abortion and the V-chip.
Coburn is a candidate for the United States Senate in 2004 and he is facing Brad Carson.
www.bambooweb.com /articles/t/o/Tom_Coburn.html   (216 words)

  
 Tom Coburn - dKosopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
As a Congressman, Coburn opposed abortion and the proposed V-chip.
Coburn also objects to legal abortion in cases of rape, and he justifies his position by noting that his great-grandmother was raped by a sheriff.
Coburn explicitly stated that he used his physician training to detremine when witnesses before Congressional hearings were lying although he refused to specifiy which instances.
www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/Tom_Coburn   (908 words)

  
 Tom_Coburn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Coburn is also a member of the so-called Fiscal Watch Team, a group of seven senators led by John McCain to combat wasteful government spending.
Coburn also objects to legal abortion in cases of rape, and he has justified his position by noting that his great-grandmother was raped by a sheriff.
Coburn said in airing the movie NBC had taken television "to an all-time low, with full-frontal nudity, violence and profanity." He also said the broadcast should outrage parents and decent-minded individuals everywhere.
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 info: Tom_Coburn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Coburn was born in Casper, Wyoming to German-American parents, O. and Joy Coburn, and graduated with a B.S. in accounting from Oklahoma State University.
Coburn's amendment would have transferred funding from the infamous Bridge to Nowhere in Alaska to rebuild Louisiana's 'Twin Spans' bridge, which was devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
Coburn stated that, in airing the movie without editing it for television, T.V. had been taken 'to an all-time low, with full-frontal nudity, violence and profanity.' He also said the TV broadcast should outrage parents and decent-minded individuals everywhere.
www.napoli-pizza.net /Tom_Coburn.html   (2750 words)

  
 Tom Coburn for U.S. Senate 2010
NFIB President and CEO Jack Faris said in a statement, "Tom Coburn understands that a healthy economy starts with small business." Dr. Coburn received overwhelming support from NFIB/Oklahoma members in a survey asking whom the organization should support in the U.S. Senate.
Coburn is a longtime leader in the fight to reform our dysfunctional tort system and help small businesses.
Coburn’s support for ending junk lawsuits is an important part of his commitment to fight for Oklahoma’s future in the U.S. Senate.
www.coburnforsenate.com /20040928pressrelease.shtml   (228 words)

  
 Comments by U.S. Senate Candidate Tom Coburn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Coburn knows this because he was in office when it was first introduced by his fellow Republican Wes Watkins.
Coburn’s statements fly in the face of the U.S. Supreme Court and federal law, which say that Indian Nations are political entities, not race-based social clubs, and that those nations, just like any other, determine who their citizens are.
In fact, Coburn fought to keep federal funding from coming to Oklahoma tribes while he was in office, so Indian tribes here now have to stretch their federal money to meet our growing population base.
www.cherokee.org /NewsArchives/announcements/2004-Coburn-Altus.asp   (1287 words)

  
 Fiscal Conservative Wins GOP Senate Nod in Oklahoma - by John Skorburg - The Heartland Institute
Former U.S. Representative Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) was a runaway winner in the July 27 Oklahoma Republican primary for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by the retirement of incumbent Don Nickles (R).
Coburn received 60 percent of the GOP vote, with former Oklahoma City Mayor Kirk Humphreys a distant second with 26 percent.
Coburn defended his positions, saying Oklahomans "took to his conservative message that condemned pork-barrel spending and called for a balanced budget." He said he was ready to "take on Carson and for Republicans to unify" after the bitter primary.
www.heartland.org /Article.cfm?artId=15632   (667 words)

  
 KOTV.com - The News On 6
Coburn is still hoping the Senate ultimately will allow him to continue practicing and accepting enough compensation to cover his expenses.
After a battle with the ethics committee in the House, where Coburn served from 1995 to 2001, Coburn was allowed to practice and accept fees to cover his costs.
Coburn contends he could still focus primarily on his Senate job while practicing medicine part-time and that his contact with patients _ many of them low income _ would enhance his work in the Senate.
www.kotv.com /main/home/storiesPrint.asp?id=90768&type=tp   (524 words)

  
 Tom Coburn The Worst Possible Choice
Coburn is in the opinion of this writer the worst possible candidate for the office and with just a few examples, I'll show you why.
Coburn proudly proclaims he is 'pro-life' and that 'all life is sacred'.
A spokesman for Coburn says the candidate was referring to the state legislature not to the residents of Oklahoma City.
www.bubbaworld.com /coburn.html   (933 words)

  
 Tom Coburn, the Republican Senate candidate from Oklahoma, is a strong conservative National Review - Find Articles
Tom Coburn, the Republican Senate candidate from Oklahoma, is a strong conservative
Coburn says that after saving the woman's life from an ectopic pregnancy, he did sterilize her but he maintains that he did so at her request, and a nurse has sworn an affidavit supporting him.
Tom Coburn appears to be the victim of a nasty political smear.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_19_56/ai_n13673319   (227 words)

  
 Sabato's Crystal Ball - Oklahoma Senate 2004
Tom Coburn entered with several demographic advantages --the most obvious one is that Oklahoma is a predominantly Republican state.
Furthermore, Coburn's congressional district encompassed what is now about 75 percent of Brad Carson's congressional district, providing the Republican a foothold on his opponent's home turf.
Carson has managed to paint Coburn as too conservative with the Republican's own words, such as Coburn's statement that the election is a choice between good (Coburn) and evil (Carson) and that he would support the death penalty for "abortionists" if Roe v.
www.centerforpolitics.org /crystalball/article.php?id=SOK2004102201   (414 words)

  
 .: United States Senator Tom Coburn :: Welcome :.
WASHINGTON - A White House budget official Thursday praised Sen. Tom Coburn's legislation to create a database of government spending and promised to work on creating it.
Clay Johnson, deputy director at the Office of Management and Budget, called the bill "a giant step forward." President Bush is expected to sign the bill, which received final House and Senate approval Wednesday.
He appeared at a Capitol Hill news conference with Coburn, R-Muskogee, and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., who co-authored the bill....
coburn.senate.gov   (128 words)

  
 Former Oklahoma Congressman Tom Coburn, M.D. Running For U.S. Senate
Tom Coburn was a Congressman from Eastern Oklahoma (the most Democratic part of the state) from 1995 to 2001; he had limited himself to three terms, and thus did not run for reelection in 2000.
Coburn is a forthright and outspoken conservative who tells it like it is, and has a following in the most 'Rat part of the state.
Coburn is clearly the most electable candidate, and it seems to me, the best on top of that.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-gop/1097546/posts   (1336 words)

  
 BOOK TV.ORG   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Senator Coburn stresses the importance of being as effective as possible in as short an amount of time as possible.
Author Bio: Tom Coburn (R-OK) was elected to the U.S. Senate November 2, 2004.
Dr. Coburn represented Oklahoma's 2nd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995-2001.
www.booktv.org /General/index.asp?segID=6582&schedID=394   (177 words)

  
 Tom Coburn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Coburn fue llevado en Casper, Wyoming y graduado de universidad de estado de Oklahoma.
Coburn hizo frente a un principal anterior 71-year-old, y lo derrotó por un margen 52%-48%.
Coburn admitió que él realizó el mismo procedimiento en "porciones" de mujeres.
www.yotor.net /wiki/es/to/Tom%20Coburn.htm   (354 words)

  
 Press Release: GOA Praises Coburn As A "Second Amendment Hero"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Nearly a decade ago, then-Congressman Tom Coburn joined Second Amendment advocates to successfully battle anti-gun provisions in Clinton-supported so-called "terrorism" legislation -- provisions that could have sent thousands of law-abiding gun owners and gun dealers to prison.
Coburn has been attacked by his opponent for opposing the Aviation Security Act of 1996, a bill which also attacked gun owner rights.
Pro-gun champions in the House like Tom Coburn -- and Democrat Harold Volkmer (MO), who was famous for having sponsored the McClure-Volkmer bill in the mid-1980s to stop many BATF abuses of gun owners -- opposed this bill.
www.gunowners.org /pr0407.htm   (393 words)

  
 The Senate's Dr. No
Coburn is the most dangerous creature that can come to the Senate, someone simply uninterested in being popular.
Coburn came to the nation's attention last October when he proposed taking the $223 million earmarked for Alaska's "Bridge to Nowhere" and using it to repair a New Orleans bridge destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
"Quite time-consuming" was Coburn and John McCain's laconic description, in a letter to colleagues, of their threat to bring the Senate to a virtual standstill with challenges to earmarks.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/11/AR2006021101024.html   (593 words)

  
 Coburn-Carson debate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Tom Coburn: Creating deficit is stealing from our children.
Tom Coburn: Rejected a road bill that came with a bribe.
The above quotations are from Debate between Tom Coburn (R) and Brad Carson (D), challengers for US Senate seat from Oklahoma, on Meet the press, Oct. 3 and Oct. 28, 2004.
www.govote.com /Coburn-Carson.htm   (214 words)

  
 Rep. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.)
Fat chance when it comes to Rep. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), who barreled through the doors of the new Republican-controlled Congress in 1994 by winning his seat in a solidly Democratic district that Republicans last held in 1923.
One of Coburn's biggest complaints is the Appropriations Committee staff — most of whom he believes are carryovers from the Democratic majority and therefore reluctant to cut spending.
Coburn explained that, as a young man, he did not get along well with his father.
www.termlimits.org /Research/1999articles/990630thehill.html   (1330 words)

  
 Tom Coburn
Tom Coburn opposes the Violence Against Women Act because it helps immigrant victims of domestic violence.
A must-read Urban Tulsa pdf article articulates Tom Coburn's role in the grouping groups and the groups that group them.
Tom Coburn is Chairman Emeritus behind Americans for Limited Government which claims to be a force in the Oklahoma TABOR bid.
www.essentialokie.com /coburn.htm   (615 words)

  
 Jesse Jackson vs. Tom Coburn
It'd be a Coburn blowout, because Jesse Jackson is a total creep.
Coburn is only perceived as extreme because of his nutty comments.
Tom Coburn, assuming he could shut up, seems personable.
www.uselectionatlas.org /FORUM/index.php?topic=16971.msg369680   (657 words)

  
 BlogPac.org :: The Tom Coburn Mess   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Tom Coburn, Republican Candidate for the U.S. Senate, has proven in his recent comments and actions over the past few weeks that he does not have the personal ethics to represent us.
Amid the fraud allegation and controversy surrounding this case, this paper calls on Dr. Tom Coburn to step-down as a candidate for the United States Senate.
Coburn's words and actions have made him unacceptable as a candidate, and especially as a Senator, for Oklahoma.
www.blogpac.org /coburnmess   (516 words)

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