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Five senators introduced a bill Tuesday that would require an independent scientific study of the health effects of certain X-ray scanners now in wide use in airports across the country. (more)

1.) Eric Holder hopes Santa doesn’t check his list twice this year — You’ll never guess who’s to blame for Eric Holder’s problems. Or maybe you know already, assuming you own a mirror. That’s right, it’s your fault! TheDC’s Matthew Boyle reports: (more)

In an interview with the American Enterprise Institute’s Stuart James and Daniel Hanson for its “Banter”podcast on Wednesday, Americans for Tax Reform founder and president Grover Norquist relived a dust-up he had with Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn this year, in which the two publicly traded barbs over the merits of ending ethanol tax credits during a budget fight. In the podcast, Norquist accused Coburn of dishonesty and said he had a hidden agenda. (more)

A report authored by Republican Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn entitled “Shooting the Messenger: Congress Targets the Taxpayers’ Watchdog” warns that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) faces further budget cuts at the same time Congress has increased its own budget from “$1.2 billion to nearly $2.3 billion” — its highest level in history. (more)

In an exclusive video interview with The Daily Caller, Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn said the American people want the country to get its “mojo back.” (more)

In an exclusive video interview with The Daily Caller, Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn said the Occupy Wall Street movement is “proposing the end of our country” by advocating for the “mass redistribution of wealth.” (more)

Wealthy celebrities including Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, Quincy Jones and Ted Turner have received federal subsidies, according to “Subsidies of the Rich and Famous,” a new report from the office of Oklahoma Republican Senator Tom Coburn. (more)

President Barack Obama today said he “can’t wait” for Congress to cut travel spending by federal employees, so he’s ordering a 20 percent cut by himself. (more)

Senators Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Joe Lieberman of Connecticut are pressing the deficit-reduction supercommittee to make substantial cuts to Medicare, reports The Hill. (more)

Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions and Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn are pushing to strip technical language — that would act as a bailout for a large law firm and a pharmaceutical manufacturer — out of the patent reform bill currently pending in the Senate. (more)

If you’re a small-government type, there’s a lot to like in Senator Tom Coburn’s “Back to Black” deficit-reduction plan, which was released yesterday. What makes Coburn’s spending cut plan different — and better — than most is that it’s detailed, balanced and just (I’ll leave it to others to discuss the revenue side of his plan). These three elements are critical to changing the culture of spending in D.C. (more)

As debt limit negotiations entered their last two weeks, Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma revealed a budget plan that would cut $9 trillion over ten years.  (more)

Sens. Joe Lieberman, Connecticut independent, and Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, rolled out their bipartisan plan to save Medicare Tuesday on Capitol Hill. (more)

More than 77,000 federal government employees throughout the country — including computer operators, more than 5,000 air traffic controllers, 22 librarians and one interior designer — earned more than the governors of the states in which they work. (more)

File this under a sentence you never thought you would read: Republican Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn has petitioned the Social Security Administration, urging them to launch an investigation into the disability benefits provided to “the adult baby.” (more)

Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn has been without question the most principled conservative in Washington, D.C. over the past two decades. He has done more than any other member of Congress to try to restrain wasteful spending and to reverse growing budget deficits. In fighting overspending by both political parties, Coburn has shown uncommon courage and made lots of enemies among the statists and big-spenders. Yet, today, his willingness to close wasteful tax loopholes in order to reduce the nation’s unsustainable debt has raised the ire of some on the right, including Washington’s biggest Ronald Reagan idolater. If this fight continues, fiscal conservatives should stand with the good doctor from Muskogee. (more)

Club For Growth, a pro-free market group with a history of targeting Republicans who stray too far to the left, released its 2010 voting scorecard Thursday, highlighting how lawmakers voted on a series of key measures over the last year. (more)

On “Meet the Press” this Sunday, Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) was asked why he was seemingly prepared to support and vote for a net income tax increase despite being a signer of the Taxpayer Protection Pledge. His answer is as revealing as it is incorrect: “Which pledge is most important … the pledge to uphold your oath to the Constitution of the United States, or a pledge from a special interest group?” (more)

Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) has introduced one of the most important pieces of health care legislation of this Congress: the Preserving Access to Targeted, Individualized, and Effective New Treatments and Services (PATIENTS) Act of 2011, which would bar the federal government from using “comparative effectiveness research” — a tool used by socialized health care systems to dictate treatment based on cost rather than effectiveness. Comparative effectiveness research gives bureaucrats the excuse they need to deny coverage of a health care treatment or micromanage the practice of medicine. (more)

House Speaker John Boehner is being asked on TV about his political ally and deputy, Majority Leader Eric Cantor, but TV viewers don’t know the tangled back story, which involves rumors of rivalries and a history of GOP infighting. (more)