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Senator Coburn Introduces "Parents Right To Know Act"
Source: Associated Press ^

Posted on 07/04/2005 9:28:47 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55

WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) -- US Senator Tom Coburn has introduced a bill that would require parents be notified before contraceptive drugs and prescription devices are distributed to minor children by certain public health clinics.

The Oklahoma Republican and practicing physician says he disagrees with the federal policy that allows children to make reproductive decisions without their parent's knowledge.

He says the policy contributes to a growing problem of sexually transmitted diseases and unintended teen pregnancies and abortions by discouraging parental involvement.

A companion bill was introduced in the House by Representatives by Missouri Republican Todd Akin.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: Oklahoma; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: 109th; abortion; coburn; coburnismyhero; parentsrighttoknow; senatorcoburn; tomcoburn
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1 posted on 07/04/2005 9:28:48 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: ConservativeMan55


Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., checks his watch between patients at his medical office in Muskogee, Okla., Monday, May 9, 2005. Coburn is fighting to keep practicing medicine, despite a Senate policy that bans senators from working at certain professions.(AP Photo/Mel Root)
2 posted on 07/04/2005 9:30:09 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (DON'T FIRE UNTIL YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THE CURTAINS THEY ARE WEARING ON THEIR HEADS !)
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To: ConservativeMan55; CoburnForPresident

Ping!


3 posted on 07/04/2005 9:30:26 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (DON'T FIRE UNTIL YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THE CURTAINS THEY ARE WEARING ON THEIR HEADS !)
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To: ConservativeMan55


Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., looks at patient X-rays at his medical office in Muskogee, Okla., Monday, May 9, 2005. Coburn is fighting to keep practicing medicine, despite a Senate policy that bans senators from working at certain professions. (AP Photo/Mel Root)
4 posted on 07/04/2005 9:31:35 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (DON'T FIRE UNTIL YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THE CURTAINS THEY ARE WEARING ON THEIR HEADS !)
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To: eyespysomething

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!


5 posted on 07/04/2005 9:31:38 AM PDT by SittinYonder (America is the Last Beach)
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To: ConservativeMan55; PhiKapMom

Ping!


6 posted on 07/04/2005 9:32:03 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (DON'T FIRE UNTIL YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THE CURTAINS THEY ARE WEARING ON THEIR HEADS !)
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To: SittinYonder

I'll bump to that!

Hopefully having this Coburn..will lead to more Coburns in the Senate in the future.


7 posted on 07/04/2005 9:33:01 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (DON'T FIRE UNTIL YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THE CURTAINS THEY ARE WEARING ON THEIR HEADS !)
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To: ConservativeMan55


A divided U.S. Senate committee voted to back President Bush's pick to head the Food and Drug Administration, acting FDA commissioner Lester Crawford, on June 15 2005, but Senators from both parties threaten to block a vote by the full Senate. Republican Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma has said he plans to place a hold on Crawford over condom labeling -- complaining the labels are not accurate and must give specific information on how well they work and the diseases they prevent. U.S. Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) is pictured alongside his wife Carolyn re-enacts being sworn-in by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 4, 2005. Photo by Jason Reed/Reuters
8 posted on 07/04/2005 9:34:00 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (DON'T FIRE UNTIL YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THE CURTAINS THEY ARE WEARING ON THEIR HEADS !)
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To: ConservativeMan55

bttt


9 posted on 07/04/2005 9:35:04 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (DON'T FIRE UNTIL YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THE CURTAINS THEY ARE WEARING ON THEIR HEADS !)
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To: ConservativeMan55
Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla) on Thursday called for the 2005 reauthorization of the Ryan White CARE Act to correct imbalances in the distribution of federal grants that favor areas with high concentrations of AIDS cases while "shortchanging" areas with HIV-positive people who have not advanced to AIDS,...

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10 posted on 07/04/2005 9:35:57 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (DON'T FIRE UNTIL YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THE CURTAINS THEY ARE WEARING ON THEIR HEADS !)
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To: SittinYonder
Coburn freely placing holds. (Pet projects beware)
11 posted on 07/04/2005 9:37:01 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (DON'T FIRE UNTIL YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THE CURTAINS THEY ARE WEARING ON THEIR HEADS !)
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To: ConservativeMan55

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.


12 posted on 07/04/2005 9:39:17 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
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To: ConservativeMan55
Hopefully having this Coburn..will lead to more Coburns in the Senate in the future.

The theory being bumped around is that repealing the 17th would lead to more Coburns. I'm still thinking about it. Do you have an opinion?

13 posted on 07/04/2005 9:40:14 AM PDT by SittinYonder (America is the Last Beach)
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Coburn Freely Placing Holds

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

14 posted on 07/04/2005 9:40:52 AM PDT by traviskicks (http://www.neoperspectives.com/janicerogersbrown.htm)
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To: ConservativeMan55; Guillermo; CatQuilt; Rastus; MikeinIraq; linkinpunk; Dan from Michigan; ...

PING!! Over here!!


15 posted on 07/04/2005 9:41:52 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (DON'T FIRE UNTIL YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THE CURTAINS THEY ARE WEARING ON THEIR HEADS !)
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To: DoughtyOne

I was thinking the exact same thing!!

Its sad...but necessary.


16 posted on 07/04/2005 9:42:52 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (DON'T FIRE UNTIL YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THE CURTAINS THEY ARE WEARING ON THEIR HEADS !)
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To: ConservativeMan55

BTTT


17 posted on 07/04/2005 9:43:10 AM PDT by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: traviskicks

Lott is stealing!

Not only that...he's boasting about it!


18 posted on 07/04/2005 9:43:27 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (DON'T FIRE UNTIL YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THE CURTAINS THEY ARE WEARING ON THEIR HEADS !)
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To: Fiddlstix

Thanks for the bump!


19 posted on 07/04/2005 9:44:09 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (DON'T FIRE UNTIL YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THE CURTAINS THEY ARE WEARING ON THEIR HEADS !)
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To: DoughtyOne

Sorry, either Coburn represents the people as a Senator or he should just continue being a physician. One or the other.


20 posted on 07/04/2005 9:47:01 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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