Tom Coburn

Tom Coburn is a former U.S. Senator from Oklahoma and a physician.

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Tom Coburn
stated on December 11, 2014 an interview with CNN

The home-mortgage deduction is widely thought to be "a middle-class benefit. It's not -- 73 percent of it goes to people making a quarter-million dollars or more a year."

By Louis Jacobson • December 17, 2014

Tom Coburn
stated on May 1, 2014 an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"

The death penalty "is a deterrent that does affect and impact people."

By Julie Kliegman • May 6, 2014

Tom Coburn
stated on December 17, 2013 Coburn's "Wastebook 2013"

"Oregon is spending $10 million advertising Obamacare with ads that don’t even mention the program and how to enroll in it" and that don’t "mention the word ‘insurance.’"

By Dana Tims • January 8, 2014

Tom Coburn
stated on May 9, 2013 an interview with MSNBC's "Morning Joe"

"In 2010, everybody said you can't dare let guns go into the national parks, and of course the rapes, murders, robberies and assaults are down about 85 percent since we did that."

By Louis Jacobson • May 9, 2013

Tom Coburn
stated on July 24, 2011 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"

"The government's twice the size it was 10 years ago. It's 30 percent bigger than it was when (Barack) Obama became president."

By Louis Jacobson • August 5, 2011

Tom Coburn
stated on December 1, 2010 a meeting of the Simpson-Bowles deficit commission

"One in 19 Americans today get SSDI or SSI. That's one in 19 Americans (who) are disabled."

By Louis Jacobson • December 14, 2010

Tom Coburn
stated on November 18, 2010 a Senate floor speech

There are "10 or 20 deaths a year from foodborne illness" in the United States.

By Louis Jacobson • December 9, 2010

Tom Coburn
stated on March 23, 2010 comments to reporters

"The American people will be appalled to learn the health care bill exempts (congressional) leadership and committee staff."

By Catharine Richert • March 26, 2010

Tom Coburn
stated on August 24, 2009 Fox News Channel's On the Record With Greta Van Susteren

"Medicare has at least $80 billion worth of fraud a year. That's a full 20 percent of every dollar that's spent on Medicare goes to fraud."

By Louis Jacobson • August 27, 2009

Tom Coburn
stated on March 4, 2009 an interview on the Fox News Channel.

"Under the Obama plan . . . all the health care in this country is eventually going to be run by the government."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 5, 2009

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