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Senator Questions Goldman Execs' Testimony

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WASHINGTON -- The head of a Senate panel investigating the financial crisis is questioning the accuracy of testimony Goldman Sachs executives gave to Congress last year about whether the firm steered investors toward mortgage securities it knew would likely fail. Goldman Sachs and Co. agreed in July to pay $550 million to...

Opinion: GOP Objections to the Food Safety Bill Are Hard to Swallow

(Dec. 7) -- Two weeks ago -- the day my wife and I would have packed to visit our families for Thanksgiving -- I woke to feel a wave of pain sweep across my stomach. I broke out in a cold sweat, and lay trembling on the bed until the cramp subsided. Then the next one came. And the next. "Let's go to the hospital," my...

Long-Stalled Food Safety Bill Advances in Senate

(Nov. 17) -- The Food Safety and Modernization Act, a comprehensive overhaul of the power of the FDA and USDA to regulate food safety, cleared a major hurdle today after spending more than a year stalled on the Senate floor. In September, it seemed that the bill was dead after last-minute opposition from Sen. Tom Coburn,...

Food Safety Overhaul Dies in Senate

(Sept. 17) -- A major food safety bill, stalled in the Senate since last summer, will not pass this year, despite a recent push from the Democrats and a tail wind provided by last month's salmonella outbreak. "We're not going to be able to get this done before we go home for the elections," Senate Majority Leader Harry...

Opinion: Health Care Suit Tests Basic Principles

(Sept. 14) -- As arguments begin Tuesday in a Florida District Court where 20 state attorneys general and the National Federation of Independent Business are challenging the constitutionality of the health care law, the American people can be forgiven for feeling a bit ill at ease about the direction their country is...

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Tom Coburn Asks Parties To Give Back Taxpayer Money For Lavish National Conventions

If politicians are so worked up over lavish conventions funded by taxpayers, the two major parties should give back more than $35 million they are given to hold their extravagant national political conventions, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) argued Thursday.

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05/30/12 Social Security disability trust fund projected to run... Source: The Washington Post - Washington DC "It's really striking how rapidly this is growing, how big it's become and how D.C. is just afraid of it," said Mark Duggan, a University of Pennsylvania economist and adviser to the Social Security Administration.
05/25/12 Sens admonish Coburn for contact with Ensign aide Source: CBS - WCBI TV - North Mississippi and West Alabama (AP) WASHINGTON --The Senate Ethics Committee admonished Republican Sen. Tom Coburn on Friday over his contact with a top aide to former Sen. John Ensign, the Nevada lawmaker who resigned in disgrace last year after lying about his affair with the staffer's wife.
05/25/12 Viewpoints: Bill could make universal health care... Source: News-Medical.Net Universal coverage, Medicare for all, single payer -- call it what you will.
05/24/12 Senate Agreement to Bring 5-Year NFIP Bill to Floor... Source: American Agent & Broker Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., made a commitment late Wednesday afternoon for floor consideration of the Senate's five-year National Flood Insurance Program extension within 60 days, but the deal with a Republican hit a snag over the timing of a provision.
05/24/12 Tom Coburn Vows to Block Flood Insurance Bill Source: Roll Call - Washington DC Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) said he would block an agreement to extend the nation's flood insurance program for 60 days unless the Senate agrees to include a provision permanently excluding vacation homes.