Coburns website also features a tip line for potential whistleblowers on government waste and fraud. This is flakes second edition of the wastebook series, started by retired sen. Coburn says this is the fifth or sixth year that he has been doing the book. Those are just some of the items paid for by the federal government last year.
Tom coburn highlights ridiculous government spending in final. How washington turns outsiders into insiders, coburn and cooper got along well, since both were opposed to the more liberal synar. With nearly halfabillion dollars in government funding put behind promoting a. Wastebook 2015 the unrelenting wasteful spending of. The book detailed coburns perspective on the internal republican party debates over the contract with america and. This report proves that the federal government is a poor allocator of resources. Between 2011 and 2014, the annual publication was called the wastebook.
He has just releases wastebook 2015 and trust me, as you will see below, the wasteful spending on idiocy. Chip somodevillagetty imageswashington its becoming a tradition for sen. Tom coburns annual report on ridiculous spending choices is probably one of the biggest victories of the report, because it means the state department canceled the project after the senators staffers asked about. Senator is frequent critic of government waste%2c fraud and mismanagement. Ten ways congress is blowing taxpayer money from tom. Washington the affordable care act headed the latest edition of sen. From 2008 until he retired from the senate in january 2015, sen. The general election was cordial since both men knew that synar would not return to washington regardless of the outcome. Senator tom coburn explains how we the people can at last rebalance our governmental system and counter the dysfunction in washington. Coburn publishes wastebook 2014 committee for a responsible. Wastebook definition of wastebook by the free dictionary. The wastebook facebook page is a joint project of senator tom coburn and senator mark kirk to expose wasteful, duplicative and inefficient spending of. Trump, biden spar over coronavirus response senator tom coburns government oversight legacy remembering tom.
This amount of waste is particularly high considering the ryanmurray budget could only muster up 23 billion in budget cuts over the next ten years. Senator coburns wastebook 2012 names biggest waste. Chicago tribune columnist john kass talks about senator tom coburns 2014 wastebook, a collection of government expenditures that he deems ridiculous. Tom coburn highlights ridiculous government spending in final wastebook. Tom coburns new book explains how an article v convention can bypass a corrupt congress. Year after year, senator tom coburn rok refuses to simply give lip service to wasteful government spending and has instead called out controversial. Senators wastebook notes that getting rid of the practice of pork barrel spending is next to impossible.
Tom coburns legacy citizens against government waste. The federal spending wastebook is outrageous in more ways. The senators annual summary of wasteful spending is entitled wastebook followed by the year of its publication. In his second year after having taken over production of the annual wastebook from former senator tom coburn, senator jeff flake has highlighted 50 ways in which the u.
Senator coburn highlights ridiculous government spending in final wastebook. Wastebook 20 united states government us senate, senator tom coburn m. Tom coburn and his investigators have been busy in their most recent effort to unveil what they view as government waste and abuse. Thats the good news, the truly sad news is that they r having to write such a book in the 1st. Senator jeff flake presents wastebook porkemon go january.
Thomas allen coburn march 14, 1948 march 28, 2020 was an american politician and. Tom coburn was always going to be a tough act to follow when it came to producing the colorful wastebook that he and his staff produced every year to document what they. Tom coburns life is a testament to the power of personal integrity, and his integrity was as fixed as the north star because it was built on his faith in jesus. It is clear from the reports of the government accountability office, senator coburns annual wastebooks, citizens against government wastes annual pig book, and many other analyses, that when addressing a newly discovered problem, congress doesnt even check to see if there already is a government program addressing it. Senator coburn highlights ridiculous government spending. Oklahoma senator tom coburn releases his annual wastebook. In it, the retiring oklahoma senator laces into the national institutes of health. Coburn as oklahomas junior senator, appears to be the closest to mirroring the wastebook. Saturday january 28th, 2017 posted by craig eyermann at 10. The book provides the historical background for article v, reveals past attempts to hold an amendments convention, explains the inherent safety of this process, and examines the current efforts since 2010. Coburns report provides a good starting point for these discussions. Being listed in a wastebook can be scary, but researchers come out.
Among the 50 examples of egregious federal spending uncovered in flakes latest report is a program that accepts peanuts for loan repayments, a computer that bingewatched the office, and a sequel to the shrimp on a treadmill study. Some of the projects listed within this report may indeed serve useful purposes or have merit and. Coburns wastebook targets include mountain lions, sheep. Coburn report reveals waste citizens against government. Known simply as the waste book, the report is a watchlist of eyeopening expenditures, which coburn blames on a let them eat caviar attitude in washington at a time when 23 million of our. Coburn is a fiscal and social conservative, known for his selfproclaimed global warming denial, opposition to deficit spending and pork barrel projects, and for his opposition to abortion.
Tom coburn highlights ridiculous government spending in. Tom coburn picks watching grass grow, synchronized swimming sea monkeys for annual wastebook from nasa to the nfl, sen. The 2014 edition of the oklahoma republicans annual. Tom coburn was always going to be a tough act to follow when it came to producing the colorful wastebook that he. He said to cbs news nancy cordes in a recent interview, where was the adult in the room when this was going on. Coburns book says, the cost to produce a penny in 2012 is more than two times its actual value. Click through to see some highlights from this years items. Ten ways congress is blowing taxpayer money from tom coburns wastebook. Tom coburns annual wastebook, released wednesday oct. The only way to stop wasteful washington spending is by shining a light on it whenever and wherever it occurs, even if it is in your own state, says sen. Tom coburn has released his annual wastebook, a comprehensive look at what coburn believes is wasteful spending in washington. Each year, coburn and his staff pick out governmentfunded projects many science. The wastewatcher is the staff blog of citizens against government waste cagw and the council for citizens against government waste ccagw.
Senator tom coburn rok, long a champion of limited government and fiscal responsibility, has released his annual wastebook his last one, unfortunately, as dr. Tom coburns annual wastebook, a ranking of 2014s top 100 worst examples of government waste, including outofthisworld spending on research. Coburn argues the waste shows that it should have been easy to. Described as the godfather of the modern conservative, austerity movement, he supports term limits, gun rights and the death penalty and opposes samesex. Tom coburn thomas tom allen coburn the hills campaign report. In his press release announcing the publication of his annual wastebook summarizing 100 examples of egregious, wasteful, and outrageous government spending, oklahoma senator tom coburn tried to make himself appear holier than thou by distancing himself from the rolling disaster in washington. The federal spending wastebook is outrageous in more. Tom coburns annual wastebook highlights the strangest, silliest and. Tom coburn, an ultraconservative oklahoma republican and family physician who in 16 years in congress crusaded for limited government, using a rulebook technicality to block so many bills that. Tom coburns wastebook targets three nevada projects. Tom coburns third edition of his wastebook names the worst offender and biggest waste of taxpayers money. Tom coburns reputation preceded him throughout the capitol a cantankerous troublemaker who was tough to work with, and more interested in blowing things up than getting things done. Tom coburn is going out with a bang with his final wastebook.
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