Government documents general collection and was provided by unt libraries government documents department to unt digital library. Tom coburn, the retiring senior republican senator from oklahoma and notorious deficit hawk, has released a massive. Among the 50 examples of egregious federal spending uncovered in flakes latest report is a program that accepts peanuts for loan repayments, a computer that bingewatched the office, and a sequel to the shrimp on a treadmill study. Oct 22, 2014 tom coburn picks watching grass grow, synchronized swimming sea monkeys for annual wastebook from nasa to the nfl, sen. Tom coburns legacy citizens against government waste.
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