Posted on 08/14/2008 5:03:51 AM PDT by kellynla
In July, federal authorities indicted Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, on corruption charges on the grounds that Alaska's Prince of Earmarks concealed hundreds of thousands of dollars of gifts and improvements to his Alaska home provided by a powerful oil services company. Also this summer, amid the mortgage meltdown, newspapers reported that a number of senators -- including Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, D-Conn.; Kent Conrad, D-N.D.; and Barack Obama, D.-Ill. -- were the beneficiaries of sweetheart home loans.
In June, the Senate Ethics Committee began an initial look into Dodd's and Conrad's discounted Countrywide Financial VIP loans, as is fitting. Meanwhile, with all of the ethics stink bombs lurking in Washington, the committee, chaired by California Democrat Barbara Boxer, is aiming its guns at Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., for "a serious violation of Senate rules."
Coburn's bad? An obstetrician by profession, Coburn won't heed the committee's threat to reprimand him for delivering babies back home in Oklahoma -- for free.
"On my own time, I'm taking care of women who have a need, and I'm going to continue to deliver babies," Coburn told Politico.com.
And, bully for him: "I'm not going to stop." When a member of the House, Coburn delivered 400 babies under an agreement with ethics meisters that allowed him to do so -- if he charged only enough to cover his expenses.
When elected to the Senate, which was first run by Republicans and now Democrats, Ethics Committee members told Coburn that if he wants to treat patients -- largely poor and "at risk" mothers -- he could not charge them, and thus would have to eat the costs of his practice.
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I KNEW they never should have let Mike Tyson out of prison.
Picking on U.S. Senatros... Sheesh.
Senator Coburn needs to fight this in the highest profile manner possible!
It would help comprehension a lot if the author explained what Senate ethics rule 37 is.
“It would help comprehension a lot if the author explained what Senate ethics rule 37 is?’
Try using your search engine next time.LOL
Standing Rules of the Senate
RULE XXXVII
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
http://rules.senate.gov/senaterules/rule37.php
If I’ve got this right, the Ethics Com. is claiming that since the hospital that Coburn practices at is privately owned, then his work there is an endorsement of that hospital and thereore a conflict of interest.
vote peelosi out so she can devote full time to saving the planet, shouldn’t take over 3-4 weeks that way.
“If I’ve got this right, the Ethics Com. is claiming that since the hospital that Coburn practices at is privately owned, then his work there is an endorsement of that hospital and thereore a conflict of interest.”
If that’s the case, then it makes no sense at all. Stupid.
Reid etal just want Senator ‘NO’ neutered or gone.
Tom Coburn passes more brains through his lower intestine in a day than Barbara Boxer actually uses.
I really wish you guys would quit posting Pelousy’s pic...I think everyone knows what she looks like by now...and it isn’t pretty. LOOL
But...if the Doctor/Senator was providing free abortions, I bet there wouldn't be a hassle!
Kelly, I know those images are difficult to gaze upon, but that’s BOXER, Pelousy’s evil twin.
yea...whatever...my eyes glaze over after a while..
don’t need to see either one...
Coburn should have opened his comments by saying that he will not be questioned on the propriety of delivering babies by the wife (Boxer) of a paid agent of the People’s Republic of China.
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