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      <excerpt> ... with South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint. But Ms. Fiorina is supported by stalwart Republican conservative Sens. Tom Coburn and James Inhofe from Oklahoma. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...  Published: 11/27/2009&#160;&#160;5:47 AM  Last Modified: 11/27/2009&#160;&#160;5:47 AM Thank you Dr. No (U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn) for suffering the slings and arrows of fiscal responsibility. Now, if we can only find 99 more like you, this mess we are in could be cleane</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...gold, and a politician who suggested we should find a way to pay for each new government program used to be respectable. Sen. Tom Coburn is one of the last voices for fiscal sanity and I for one applaud his efforts.   Letters to the editor are encourage</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Take Oklahoma Republican Senator Tom Coburn, commonly known as Senator No, who opposes passage of a bill to aid wounded veterans and their strained families ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> SHARYL ATTKISSON: Senator Tom Coburn is against earmarking altogether, saying it&amp;#39;s fraught with conflicts of interest. Party leaders and those on the ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> ... Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn last week announced his intention to press for a full reading of the 2074 page bill on the floor of the Senate, ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Republican Sen. Tom Coburn counts no fewer than 11 studies that say provisions in the bill will raise premiums. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> ... Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn last week announced his intention to press for a full reading of the 2074 page bill on the floor of the Senate, ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...couple of weeks ago, I wrote how one Senator, Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, was obstructing urgently needed legislation intended to help wounded veterans and their families. The omnibus legislation drew unanimous committee approval. But Senator Coburn objecte</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>And, as you expand outwards over the last couple decades, and you look at the concerns of politicians like Senator Sam Brownback, Senator Jim Inhofe, Senator Tom Coburn, all these guys who are very involved members -you see ...</excerpt>
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