http://news.firedoglake.com/2009/12/04/on-day-of-jobs-summit-tom-coburn-submits-amendment-asking-federal-government-to-fire-people/On Day Of Jobs Summit, Tom Coburn Submits Amendment Asking Federal Government To Fire People
By: David Dayen Friday December 4, 2009 8:41 am
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...But Coburn submitted another amendment yesterday which was interesting, given the timing. Here’s the summary:
SA 2825. Mr. COBURN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 3590:
At the appropriate place, insert the following:
SEC. X. BUREAUCRAT LIMITATION.
For each new bureaucrat added to any department or agency of the Federal Government for the purpose of implementing the provisions of this Act (or any amendment made by this Act), the head of such department or agency shall ensure that the addition of such new bureaucrat is offset by a reduction of 1 existing bureaucrat at such department or agency.
This is an amendment that would fire random federal government employees. And it was submitted in the context of 15.4 million unemployed Americans, on the very day that the President convened a summit to address how to add jobs to the economy.Of course,
Tom Coburn is maybe the biggest hypocrite in the entire health care debate, a man who continues to talk about the dangers of government getting in between a patient and their doctor, when as a doctor he sterilized a woman without her consent. The campaign grew more divisive with the emergence of details about the sterilization in 1990.
Dr. Coburn performed it during an operation to remove an ectopic pregnancy, a dangerous condition in which an embryo was growing in a fallopian tube. He removed the tube and tied off the other one, leaving the woman sterile.
The woman says she never consented to the procedure. Dr. Coburn said that he obtained oral permission for the sterilization, but that a nurse failed to obtain written consent.
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