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In a letter to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, Dr. Coburn asks why certain conference expenditure data from the IRS was omitted in a previous response Dr. Coburn requested of the Treasury on conference spending.  Treasury responded that only 5 conferences were attended by 50 or more Treasury staff – all costing less than $500,000 and none were indicated to be IRS conferences, contrary to new TIGTA findings.    



Date Title
6/27/13 Dr. Coburn’s Statement on Passage of Senate Immigration Bill
6/27/13 Bipartisan Group of Senators Forge Student Loan Compromise
6/27/13 Dr. Coburn’s Statement on DOMA Ruling
6/27/13 Senators Reject Department of Interior’s Federal Hydraulic Fracturing Regulation with Introduction of FRESH Act
6/27/13 Senators Manchin, Burr, Coburn, Alexander, King Introduce Bipartisan Permanent Student Loan Solution
6/26/13 The Obama Administration’s Decision Terminates the Insure Oklahoma Program
6/26/13 Senators Coburn, McCain, Ayotte Ask that the U.S. Department of the Air Force Meet Their NDAA Deadline in Letter to Acting Secretary Fanning
6/21/13 Senators Request GAO Probe CO-OP Projects Under Health Reform Law
6/21/13 Senators Question Tavenner on Effectiveness of New Innovation Center
6/20/13 Senators Express Concerns With Navigator Proposed Regulation in Letter to Secretary Sebelius
6/20/13 Coburn and McCaskill Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Means-Test Medicare Premiums
6/20/13 SENATORS: HEALTH LAW’S NAVIGATOR PROGRAM LACKS CONSUMER SAFEGUARDS, INCREASES RISK OF FRAUD
6/20/13 Sequester This: Coburn Finds Little Evidence of Sequester Diet at USDA as Agency Binges on Spending
6/20/13 Dr. Coburn Offers Amendments to Immigration Bill
6/19/13 Senators Klobuchar, Toomey, Shaheen, and Coburn Request That The GAO Examine Price Transparency for Medicare Beneficiaries
6/19/13 Coburn Asks Treasury To Stop Making Excuses and Release Conference Spending
6/18/13 Boxer, Coburn Praise Senate Passage of the Hope Act
6/17/13 McCaskill, Coburn Seek Support from Colleagues on Revision to Health Care Law
6/14/13 Examining Medicare Spending: What’s Realistic to Expect?
6/13/13 By The Numbers: Entitlements Drive Spending
6/13/13 Washington's Leadership Crisis
6/13/13 Sequester This: Dr. Coburn Urges DOJ to Stop Crying Wolf on Sequester and Address Abundance of Wasteful Spending
6/10/13 Senators Carper, Coburn and Congressmen Roskam, Carney Lead Bipartisan Effort to Combat Billions of Dollars in Waste, Fraud and Abuse in Medicare and Medicaid
6/6/13 Bipartisan Senate Coin Legislation Offers Taxpayer Savings, Deficit Reduction
6/6/13 GAO Report Highlights Defense Department’s Failure to Curb Improper Payments
6/6/13 Senators Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Reduce Overlapping Benefit Payments
6/5/13 Current record
6/5/13 Dr. Coburn Asks VA to Clarify Policy on Employees Paid to do Union Work While Veterans Face Backlog
6/3/13 Chairman Carper, Ranking Member Coburn Highlight Release of Federal Program Inventory
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