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June 30, 2010 6:15 pm ET filed under Video

Sen. Coburn Presses Kagan On "Natural" Law

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June 10, 2010 6:34 pm ET filed under Fact Check

Sen. Coburn's Bogus Attacks On Sotomayor, Kagan And International Law

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May 10, 2010 5:24 pm ET filed under Blog

GOP Will Treat Solicitor General Kagan Like Justice Sotomayor

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March 24, 2010 2:33 pm ET filed under Blog

Sen. Coburn's Own Health Care Bill Doesn't Include Viagra Provision

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March 24, 2010 1:26 pm ET filed under Blog

Republican Reconciliation Games Exposed

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March 18, 2010 11:41 am ET filed under Blog

Sen. Coburn Says Democrats "Concocted" A Procedure To Pass The Cornhusker Kickback

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March 04, 2010 3:14 pm ET filed under Video

Sen. Coburn Hypocritically Claims Reconciliation Is For "Significantly Bipartisan" Bills

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March 03, 2010 10:14 am ET filed under Blog

Sen. Coburn Repeats New GOP Talking Point That Reconciliation Is For "Significantly Bipartisan" Bills

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February 25, 2010 10:38 am ET filed under Fact Check

Health Care Reform Summit: The GOP "Away Team"

The GOP Summit "Away Team" will have a rocky landing at President Obama's bipartisan summit on health care reform.  These 18 members of Congress have made no secret of their staunch opposition to health care reform - no matter how much their constituents support it or how it would benefit their districts.

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February 11, 2010 1:41 pm ET filed under Blog

Conservatives Again Demonstrate Their Disdain For Workers

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December 21, 2009 11:19 am ET filed under Video

Sen. Tom Coburn Says High Deficit & High Unemployment Are NOT Obama's Fault

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December 21, 2009 10:38 am ET filed under Blog

Dr. Coburn Immunizes Obama From GOP Attacks

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December 18, 2009 2:12 pm ET filed under Blog

Sen. Coburn Agrees That Dems Could Deny Republicans Health Care

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December 17, 2009 11:00 am ET filed under Fact Check

Sen. Coburn Sends GOP-Approved Lies To The Wall Street Journal

The evening of December 16, 2009 - the same day he tried to force a lengthy delay of a vote to fund our troops - Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) wrote an op-ed that appeared in the Wall Street Journal.  As usual, Sen. Coburn relied on GOP-approved talking points instead of anything resembling factual information.

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December 17, 2009 10:08 am ET filed under Blog

Furious That Coburn's Stall Tactic Failed, GOP Cries Foul

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December 16, 2009 1:39 pm ET filed under Blog

Delay And Stonewall: Sen. Coburn Forces Reading Of 767-Page Amendment

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December 05, 2009 6:31 pm ET filed under Video

Sen. Coburn Whines, Says Women's Health Care Provisions Passed For Emotional & Politically Expedient Reasons

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December 02, 2009 12:15 pm ET filed under Blog

Senate Republicans Attack Franken's "Partisan", "Daily Kos" Anti-Rape Amendment

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December 01, 2009 12:31 pm ET filed under Video

Sen. Coburn's Message To Seniors: "You're Going To Die Sooner"

During his December 1, 2009 floor speech, Sen. Tom Coburn had a message for senior citizens: the Democratic health care reform legislation will cause you to die sooner.

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December 01, 2009 11:52 am ET filed under Fact Check

Republican Senators Have Voted To Cut $1.31 Trillion From Medicare

During Senate debate this morning, several Republican Senators took to the floor to encourage passage of the McCain amendment and to discuss their wrong interpretation of Medicare funding in the Democrats' health care reform legislation.  What is most interesting about this morning's debate is that these senators who falsely accused Democrats of cutting Medicare have themselves cut Medicare by $1.31 trillion during their collective tenure in Congress.

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October 16, 2009 5:41 pm ET filed under Blog

J.C. Watts Compares Senator Coburn To MLK, Jr.

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July 16, 2009 12:54 pm ET filed under Fact Check

Sen. Coburn Can't Make Up His Mind On The Application Of Foreign Law

On July 16, 2009, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) asked Judge Sonia Sotomayor, "where do we stand in this country when 80% of the rest of the world allows abortion only before 12 weeks?" However, the very previous day, he stated, "we don't want judges to consider legislation and foreign law that's developed through bodies, elected bodies outside of this country."

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July 13, 2009 1:08 pm ET filed under Video

Sen. Coburn: "We Lost Influence When We Became A Country"

Sen. Coburn: "We Lost Influence When We Became A Country"

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May 20, 2009 11:33 am ET filed under Blog

Is The GOP Trying To End Medicaid?

It seems so. Taking away health care from struggling families in the middle of a recession is not only bad policy, it's morally reprehensible.

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May 01, 2009 10:27 am ET filed under Fact Check

In Their Own Words: The Majority's Prerogative

In 2005, many Republican Senators went so far as to claim the filibuster of judicial nominees was unconstitutional. Now four years later, with President Obama's first Supreme Court appointment looming, will they remain consistent in their position or commit one of the most blatant acts of hypocrisy in the 220-year history of the United States Senate?

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