If Georgia's voters had gotten their act together last year instead of marking ballots for the name they recognize, we could have had two Tom Coburns. Nonetheless, I'm thankful we've got one. Way to go Oklahoma!
It's difficult for me to imagine that this type of legislation should ever be necessary in our nation, but it is. What a shame, and a benchmark for the decline of our society.
6/23/05 Roll Call More on how Senator Tom Coburn, Club For Growth bankrolled candidate, is doing his utmost to protect our money and liberty in Congress. The freshman is using his power as a Senator to put a hold - or secret filibuster threat - on any bill he believes would create a new spending program, whether it is included in an appropriations bill or an authorizing bill.
That means that many a Senator's home-state pet project could be held up indefinitely by a man known for sticking to his guns, even to the point of making enemies. Thieves don't like being called out.
"I don't think we ought to be passing new legislation, spending new money when we can't pay for what we're doing today, and we're not willing to cut what we're doing today," said Coburn in a recent interview. Common sense... in Washington?
"It's not about Ted Stevens [porkbarreling 'Republican' senator]," Coburn said. "It's about, if we're going to spend new money then we ought to be able to say, 'Here's where we'll get the money to pay for this,' or we ought not to be doing this."
Given that [Coburn's shenanigans], Senators aren't even safe anymore thinking that their pet programs are protected because they've already become law. [Gasp! We can't have that can we?] "He's elated to have a forum like this and plans to use it to its full potential," Hart said. Good. Tom Coburn is perhaps the only Senator who is actually representing his constituents and truly focusing on shrinking government. Still, during his more than 30 years in Congress, Lott said he has learned something about how to keep the likes of Coburn from stopping his pet projects from becoming law. "The way I do it is, I fold them into bills where you can't find it," Lott said. "I've been around here long enough to know how to bury it."
Senator Lott is on the record talking about stealing your family's money in order to transfer it to his own political constituents in wasteful bloated spending bills. Senator Lott is engaging in criminal behavior. Of course, it's perfectly legal, but it is morally criminal. It's like a bank robber boasting to the police what a great thief he is and the police not doing anything. 'We the people', are the apathetic police. We need to vote these corrupt politicians out of office and elect more people like Tom Coburn. Club For Growth.
Of course if the government got out of health care then no one could get upset at what private clinics did...
Also, further reducing/eliminting TANF/ADFC welfare spending would help with family structure.
I'd rather seen Coburn focus on shrinking government then this sort of 'fiddling' with it.
This is a good idea. FL tried this and had to amend the FL constitution because of FL's privacy amendment.
They now have a parental notification law because they made a constitution amendment AND it provides and out clause via a court order.
If this has a similar "out clause" then it would be sustainable.
Glad to see this. Even if it doesn't get passed, it'll certainly shine more light on what the Progressive/Liberal/Socialist/Democrats are truly up to where our children and our parental rights over said children are concerned.
Talkin' about your buddies Coburn and Watts over here.
The thing is that they need to determine once and for all if parents are responsible for theri children until the age of 18 or not and if this applies to to health care as well. They want it both ways, saying that parents must give adequate health care but then allow abortion or birth control without parental permission.
They shouldn't be allowed to have it both ways.
This is a double edged sword here. A girl from my high school was on birth control until her mom found it. She denied it was hers and quit taking it. Then she got pregnant. Not all kids have the intestinal fortitude to come clean about their sex lives with their parents. Does this really mean we don't want them on birth control? I for one don't think they are ready to be parents if they can't be honest with their parents about what they do with their time.
excellent bill to introduce!!!!!!!!!!! PRaying this will pass!!