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[David P. Dillard]

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DISASTERS: TORNADOES :

COUNTRIES: UNITED STATES: STATES: OKLAHOMA :

UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY :

INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM INDUSTRY :

UNITED STATES: GOVERNMENT: BUDGETS AND BUDGETING:

Tom Coburn:
Tornado Relief Bill Unnecessary,
'Washington Creating A Crisis' To 'Advantage Themselves'

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Tom Coburn:
Tornado Relief Bill Unnecessary,
'Washington Creating A Crisis' To 'Advantage Themselves'

Posted: 05/23/2013 10:20 am EDT

Updated: 05/23/2013 10:49 am EDT

Jennifer Bendery and Nick Wing

Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/23/
tom-coburn-tornado-relief_n_3324948.html

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A shorter URL for the above link:

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http://tinyurl.com/nrmxqn7

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WASHINGTON -- Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) fired back Thursday at those who
have criticized him for demanding that any disaster aid package for
Oklahoma tornado victims include offsets, or matching spending cuts
elsewhere in the budget. The money is already available to help his
constituents, Coburn argued, suggesting that lawmakers only want to pass
an unpaid-for disaster aid package so they can tuck other unrelated items
in it to benefit their home states.

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"It's just typical Washington B.S.," Coburn said during an interview on
MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "There's $11.6 billion sitting in a bank account
waiting to help people in Oklahoma ... It's a crass political game because
I was being asked these questions before we even pulled the dead people
out of the rubble."

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Coburn, one of the most fiscally conservative lawmakers in Congress, is
right about $11.6 billion being available. But it's not because he had
anything to do with it. Congress approved $18.5 billion for disaster
relief for 2013, with most of those funds -- $11.5 billion -- approved
after Hurricane Sandy. Coburn vocally opposed both packages, but lawmakers
decided then none of that emergency aid should be subject to offsets. The
amount of money left in that fund is at about $11.6 billion, which means
it can be pulled to respond to the Oklahoma storm -- without offsets.

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Coburn then went on in the MSNBC interview to suggest that "most of the
property damage" from the tornadoes was "insured."

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The complete article may be read at the URL above.

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