http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/12/16/senator-tom-coburns-departing-fk-you-to-veterans-video/
"The Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for Veterans bill passed the House last week with an actual bi-partisan vote. Then it went to the Senate, where it was thought that the same thing would happen, leaving only the need for a Presidential signature. That’s what it was expected to do….
Enter Tom Coburn, idiot Senator from Oklahoma. He put a block on the bill. Why? It’s too expensive, he says. Expensive? Where was his cry of “it’s too expensive” when the vote was cast to send these men and women to war? And how much is “too expensive,” anyway? How does $22 million sound? I don’t know about you but it sounds like a bargain to me. Considering that the military budget is in the billions of dollars, the cost of this bill is small change.
Coburn, who takes pride in his nickname, “Dr. No,” is one of the most conservative members of Congress. Not surprising in that Koch Industries is one of his major donors. That’s when he’s there. According to GovTrack, Coburn missed 238 of 3,133 votes, or 7.6% during his tenure. The median is 2.1% for lifetime records of sitting senators. Just this last few weeks, he missed 60 of 88 votes, putting him in the 99th percentile. Too bad he didn’t just miss this latest vote."
