Honorable Tom Coburn
United States Senator, Oklahoma, Republican
Senator Coburn was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004. He serves on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. The following is excerpted from the March 3, 2009, Senate floor debate on the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009.I am having trouble, from a philosophical viewpoint, understanding why the language is in this bill the way it is. There is no confusion as to my stand on pro-life issues, pro-choice versus pro-life. I stand in the corner of pro-life. But I want to debate this issue as if I were pro-choice, that I believe that the law…
