False CR Debate Has Taken Attention Away from Excessive Spending: Dr. Coburn on Senate Floor

"There's a big story that hasn't been told to the thousands and thousands of people from Oklahoma that have called my office. They haven't been given informed consent. They've been sold a bill of goods. And when I have young interns and young staff in my office taking significant calls from people who've been misled, there's no way you're going to talk them out of a position that outside interest groups and a very few small number of people inside the Senate have planted." "They've been misdirected in terms of what the real problems are. You know, nobody fought harder, I would say, against the Affordable Care Act, as a practicing physician, than I did. I was still practicing and being a U.S. Senator at that time. I was still delivering babies on the weekends in Oklahoma." "I want to spend a little bit of time talking about what this debate has taken our attention away from. The real problem in our country right now is that we're bankrupt." "We've had this big debate, but nobody is focused on the fact that Washington is still lying about the numbers up here." "The problem is we're double-minded and double-speaking when we talk about the numbers." "Congress, the president, the House and the Senate voted for the Budget Control Act. We made a promise. But we have some problems. The first is the have a bill coming over here is $985 billion. So it's $18 billion bigger than what we promised you just last year, which begs the question, what are we doing with this continuing resolution? We're breaking our word that we gave you last year, and the year before. We can't help ourselves."