Coburn to Senate: I Won't Quit My Weekend Job
by TChris
Another Republican doesn't want to follow the rules ... and so he won't. Senate rules prohibit Senators from earning outside income, but Sen. Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma obstetrician, has been delivering babies anyway when he's home on breaks from his day job as a politician. The Senate Ethics Committee told Coburn in December to stop. Coburn agreed not to take new patients, but has continued to give exams and deliver babies.
"No, I am not going to close my medical practice," Coburn, R-Okla., said Tuesday.
Coburn has threatened to cause "all sorts of mischief" if the Senate actually makes him work at his elected job "five solid days a week."
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