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Tom Coburn is a former U.S. Senator from Oklahoma and a physician.

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Tom Coburn
stated on December 11, 2014 in an interview with CNN:

The home-mortgage deduction is widely thought to be "a middle-class benefit. It's not -- 73 percent of it goes to people making a quarter-million dollars or more a year."

By Louis Jacobson • December 17, 2014
Tom Coburn
stated on May 1, 2014 in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":

The death penalty "is a deterrent that does affect and impact people."

By Julie Kliegman • May 6, 2014
Tom Coburn
stated on December 17, 2013 in Coburn's "Wastebook 2013":

"Oregon is spending $10 million advertising Obamacare with ads that don’t even mention the program and how to enroll in it" and that don’t "mention the word ‘insurance.’"

By Dana Tims • January 8, 2014
Tom Coburn
stated on May 9, 2013 in an interview with MSNBC's "Morning Joe":

"In 2010, everybody said you can't dare let guns go into the national parks, and of course the rapes, murders, robberies and assaults are down about 85 percent since we did that."

By Louis Jacobson • May 9, 2013
Tom Coburn
stated on July 24, 2011 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

"The government's twice the size it was 10 years ago. It's 30 percent bigger than it was when (Barack) Obama became president."

By Louis Jacobson • August 5, 2011

Tom Coburn
stated on December 17, 2013 in Coburn's "Wastebook 2013":

"Oregon is spending $10 million advertising Obamacare with ads that don’t even mention the program and how to enroll in it" and that don’t "mention the word ‘insurance.’"

By Dana Tims • January 8, 2014

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