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A sterilization Coburn performed on a 20-year-old woman, Angela Plummer, in 1990, became what was called "the most incendiary issue" of his Senate campaign. [28] Coburn performed the sterilization on the woman during an emergency surgery to treat a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy, removing her healthy intact fallopian tube as well as the one damaged by the surgery.
Thomas B. Coburn, president of Naropa University; Tom Coburn (1948–2020), U.S. Senator from Oklahoma This page was last edited on 8 ...
Coburn's maverick nature culminated itself in 2000 when he backed conservative activist Alan Keyes for President rather than George W. Bush or John McCain. Ultimately, Coburn triumphed over Humphreys, Anthony, and Hunt in the primary, winning every county in Oklahoma except for tiny Harmon County.
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Coburn, a very popular incumbent, promised to self-term limit himself to two terms. Despite his popularity, he did release television advertisements. In 2009, Coburn's approval rating in a PPP poll was 59%, including a 39% approval rating among Democrats. [5] His Democratic opponent is a perennial candidate [6] who did little campaigning. [7]
The 2014 United States Senate special election in Oklahoma took place on November 4, 2014, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Oklahoma, concurrently with the regularly-scheduled election to Oklahoma's other Senate seat, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and ...
OpenTheBooks CEO Adam Andrzejewski and former-U.S. Senator Dr. Tom Coburn co-authored an editorial at The Wall Street Journal titled "Why Does the IRS Need Guns" to break the report. [ citation needed ] In the report, OpenTheBooks quantified $1.48 billion in non-military federal agencies purchases of guns, ammunition, and military-style ...
The conservative fiscal watchdog group Citizens Against Government Waste awarded Ensign a 92% lifetime rating—the fourth highest Senator after Jim DeMint, Tom Coburn and Jon Kyl—as of 2007. [33] In 2005, Ensign introduced legislation to the Commission on the Accountability and Review of Federal Agencies. [34]