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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)

As of Wednesday night, a vote may finally be in sight for an amendment that would revoke the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. After days of back and forth over scheduling, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid signaled late Wednesday that a vote is tentatively set for Thursday afternoon. (more)

I’m a big fan of giving the benefit of the doubt to issues I don’t agree with. My thinking is always that if there’s a ban, a loophole or a hurdle, it was placed there not to piss anybody off, but because of some honest, albeit sometimes wrong-headed, motivation to do the right thing. When I discover, however, that the driving force is malevolent, illegal, or just plain immoral, all bets are off. (more)

While many Americans were focusing on “March Madness,” a panel of members of Congress and health care activists had another kind of “March Madness” in mind Monday night  ̶   the first anniversary of the passage of President Obama’s contentious health care law. (more)

Another short-term budget resolution to fund the government is expected to pass the House Tuesday, but support among Senate Republicans is waning, with many promising that this will be the last time they’ll offer leadership their support until they come up with a long-term solution. (more)

That headline alone is a shocker, since it defies the conventional wisdom (CW) and narrative created by the media and the Internet. (more)

Before a jury found Manuel Asensio had illegally defamed a company whose demise he would profit from, and before securities regulators barred him from employment in the banking industry for the rest of his life, he used to take down companies with savage reports under the banner of his investment bank, Asensio & Company. (more)

In a major development on spending cuts, Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah and Democratic Sen. Mark Udall of Colorado are introducing a proposal for a new congressional committee focused only on eliminating duplicative and wasteful government spending. (more)

Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn blasted the Education Department Wednesday for what he called “very significant inappropriate behavior in tipping hedge funds on short selling private education” and called on a key Senate panel to investigate the matter. (more)

Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn expressed doubt Wednesday that likely Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has what it takes to be president. “He is undoubtedly the smartest man I’ve ever met,” Coburn said of the former Speaker of the House in an interview with C-SPAN. “He is a thinker. He has great vision. The question to me is, does he have the capability to lead the country? And having served under him in the House, he is probably not one that I would choose to support in a presidential primary.” (more)

The federal government could save billions in taxpayer dollars annually by consolidating duplicative government programs, according to a new report. (more)

As members of Congress fight over what to cut in the current federal budget to avert a government shutdown, lawmakers are about to receive a blockbuster report that could provide a roadmap to potentially hundreds of billions of dollars in waste. The nonpartisan General Accounting Office (GAO) is poised to release a report Tuesday that one senator said “will make us all look like jackasses.” (more)