Word: coburn
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hire lobbyists to make sure they get their share. And while some members, mainly Republicans, have suggested that the real solution to lobbying reform is fixing the budget process so Congress isn't doling out money for individual projects in congressional districts, that's highly unlikely to happen. Tom Coburn, a freshman Senator from Okalahoma, has already become one of his chamber's more unpopular members by repeatedly going to the floor of the Senate and deriding his colleagues for all the money they bring back home to their districts and states...
...think about that and respond later. Obama rarely plays the role of attack dog for his party. "He's very carefully chosen what assignments he will take," says a Senate Democratic aide. Some Democrats complain that his high-profile alliances with Republicans--such as his joining with Tom Coburn, one of the most conservative Republicans in the Senate, to push a bill to monitor Hurricane Katrina recovery spending--smack of a man positioning himself for a presidential run. "He needs to be careful not to look too political and too out for himself," says a Democratic strategist. "He needs...
...time when the federal budget deficit continues to soar, the old Chicago Post Office is just one of a countless number of aging, vacant federal properties that are literally wastes of space and money. So it was that first thing Monday morning, Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, the chairman of the Senate subcommittee on federal financial management, signed a liability waiver and joined high-ranking postal officials on a 45-minute walking tour of the mammoth mothballed structure. "The federal government has no complete record of what properties it owns or what their condition or availability is," declared Coburn...
...most recent indicator of the breadth of the building inefficiency scourge comes from a 2003 U.S. Government report that identified 927 vacant and underused federal properties controlled by just three agencies: the General Services Administration, Veterans Affairs, and the U.S. Postal Service. Under Coburn?s questioning, Get Moy, the Director of Installation Requirements and Management at the Department of Defense, conceded that he could not offer a firm number for how much the Pentagon spends to maintain underutilized buildings, though he could offer that between 1998 and 2004, the department met its own target of shedding 86,000 sq. feet...
...that 5% of its nearly 150 million square feet is vacant, including the main VA hospital in Milwaukee. In a federal budget that President Bush just proposed at $2.77 trillion, several billion dollars on unused office space may seem insignifcant. But Democratic Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, who joined Coburn at the hearing, stressed that every penny counts. "Regardless of what sides of the aisle we sit on, we all agree we are in dire financial straits and we need to manage our assets in the most cost effective way possible to close the gap," said Obama. "A dollar wasted...