Also in 2009, Nunes co-authored the " Patients ' Choice Act " with Paul Ryan ( R-WI ) in the House, and Tom Coburn ( R-OK ) and Richard Burr ( R-NC ) in the Senate.

Coburn finally returned to film in the 1990s and appeared in supporting roles in Young Guns II, Hudson Hawk, Sister Act 2, Maverick, Eraser, The Nutty Professor, Affliction, and Payback.

Michigan's pledge of allegiance to the state flag was written by Harold G. Coburn and was officially adopted as Public Act 165 of 1972.

On May 20, 2009, the injunction was overturned by the passing of an amendment to the Credit CARD Act of 2009, added by Senator Tom Coburn ( R, OK ) over the objections of the Brady Campaign.

For example, in 1999 he joined together with fellow Family members, Senators Strom Thurmond and Don Nickles to demand a criminal investigation of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, and in 2005 Brownback joined with Fellowship member Sen. Tom Coburn to promote the Houses of Worship Act.

Since April 2007, Coburn has been holding the Federal Employee Protection of Disclosures Act ( S. 274 ) from becoming law.

Coburn voted against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in December 2009, and against the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.

Coburn was " one of the original authors " of the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act upheld by the Supreme Court in Gonzales v. Carhart.

'" When Coburn later called Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan " ignorant " due to her " very expansive view " of the Commerce Clause, his support for the Act was used to suggest his hypocrisy on the issue.

On April 6, 2006, Coburn and Senators Barack Obama, Thomas Carper and John McCain introduced the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006.

Coburn said that the earmarks would benefit Nelson's son Patrick's employer with millions in federal dollars and that the situation violated terms of the Transparency Act, which was passed by the Senate but had not yet been voted on in the House.

In 1997, Coburn introduced a bill called the HIV Prevention Act of 1997, which would have amended the Social Security Act.

" On the Credit CARD Act of 2009, which aimed " to establish fair and transparent practices relating to the extension of credit under an open end consumer credit plan and for other purposes ," Coburn sponsored an amendment that would allow concealed carry of weapons in national parks.

For example, in November 2009 Coburn drew considerable attention for placing a hold on a veterans ' benefits bill known as the Veterans ’ Caregiver and Omnibus Health Benefits Act.

According to the Boston Globe, Coburn initially blocked passage of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act ( GINA ), objecting to provisions in the bill that allow discrimination based on genetic information from embryos and fetuses.

Coburn was previously blocking passage of the LRA Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act, which would help to disarm the Lord's Resistance Army, a political group accused of human rights abuses.

On Feb 03, 2012, Coburn released the following statement regarding the STOCK Act.

The four Republican Congressmen, joined by Senator Tom Coburn ( R-OK ) and Congressman Patrick McHenry ( R-NC ), then wrote IRS Commissioner Douglas H. Shulman on November 16, 2009, asking that CAIR be investigated for excessive lobbying and failing to register as a lobbying organization.

However, on September 1, 2009, it was announced that the band had again parted ways with original keyboardist Ray Coburn.

Thomas B. Coburn served in this role from 2003 – 2009, succeeded by Stuart C. Lord in July 2009 .< sup > 1 </ sup > Naropa denotes Buddhist teacher Sakyong Mipham as its current lineage holder.

In May 2009, Coburn was the only Senator to vote against confirmation of Gil Kerlikowske as the Director of the National Drug Control Policy.

Coburn previously lived in one of the Family's Washington, D. C. dormitories with then-Senator John Ensign, another Family member and longtime resident of the C Street Center who admitted he had an extramarital affair with a staffer in 2009.

In October 2009, Coburn did make a statement to the New York Times about Ensign's affair and cover-up: " John got trapped doing something really stupid and then made a lot of other mistakes afterward.

Coburn joined Congressmen Sue Myrick ( R-NC ), Trent Franks ( R-AZ ), John Shadegg ( R-AZ ), Paul Broun ( R-GA ) and Patrick McHenry ( R-NC ) in a letter to IRS Commissioner Douglas H. Shulman on November 16, 2009, asking that the Council on American-Islamic Relations ( CAIR ) be investigated for excessive lobbying and failing to register as a lobbying organization.

Before the 2009 BCS game between the Oklahoma Sooners and the Florida Gators, Coburn made a bet over the outcome of the game with Florida Senator Bill Nelson -- the loser had to serenade the winner with a song.

In 2009 Dedina worked with a national coalition of environmentalists and fishing groups, Senator Tom Coburn, and the Obama White House to kill plans by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to carry out destructive pork-barrel dredge and fill projects nationwide.

* Tom Coburn, U. S. senator from Oklahoma

The state's senior U. S. Senator is James Inhofe ( R-Tulsa ), and the state's junior U. S. Senator is Tom Coburn ( R-Muskogee ).

* Tom Coburn, current U. S. Senator from Oklahoma

In the U. S. Senate, Stillwater is represented by Republicans Tom Coburn and James Inhofe.

* Frank P. Coburn, U. S. Representative

Coburn was born in Laurel, Nebraska, the son of James, Jr. and Mylet S. ( née Johnson ) Coburn.

Coburn was raised in Compton, California, where he attended Compton Junior College and enlisted in the U. S. Army in 1950, serving as a truck driver and an occasional disc jockey on an Army radio station in Texas.

Peckinpah and Coburn were greatly disappointed and turned next to Cross of Iron, a critically acclaimed war epic that performed poorly in the U. S. but was a huge hit in Europe.

In addition, a current proposal to build the East-West Highway across central and northern Maine calls for the A-10 to be extended to the U. S. border at Coburn Gore where it would meet the new highway.

** Future: A current proposal to build the East-West Highway across central and northern Maine calls for the A-610 ( its original numbering as A-10 restored ) to be extended to the U. S. border at Coburn Gore where it would meet the new highway.

In February 2012, it was reported that U. S. Sen. Tom Coburn was blocking S. 1537, due to concerns over " earmarked funding ", under a Senate rule which allows any one senator to hold a bill from moving to the Senate floor for a vote.

* Frankston North-The Pines is serviced by Neighbourhood Watch which is broken up by five separate areas each with its own Co-ordinator and their Zone Representatives within a Committee consisting of a Newsletter Editor, Secretary, Treasurer and an Overall Co-ordinator / President ( Stan Doric JP the initiator in 2004 ) current to 2010, liaison during this time with Victoria Police ( Frankston City ) Co-ordinator L / S / Const Sharron Coburn. The areas are known as FRK 22, FRK 23, FRK 24, FRK 25, FRK 26 and are bound by Frankston-Dandenong Road, Pines Flora & Fauna Reserve, Ballarto Rd, Peninsula Country Golf Club.

Coburn was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives in 1994 as part of the Republican Revolution.

Tom Coburn graduated with a B. S.

Under his leadership, the Virginia division of Coburn Optical grew from 13 employees to more than 350 and captured 35 percent of the U. S. market.

Coburn is one of three medical doctors currently serving in the U. S. Senate.

Coburn has said tobacco should not have additional regulation by the U. S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) in addition to the current Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms ( ATF ) oversight.

S. 3297 combined several bills which Coburn had blocked into what became known as a " Tomnibus " bill, a reference to omnibus bills used to combine several individual bills into one piece of legislation.

Prominent fiscal conservatives include former U. S. House Majority Leader Dick Armey, former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, Representative Mike Pence, former Representative and Secretary of HUD Jack Kemp, U. S. Senator Tom Coburn ( Oklahoma ), Publisher Steve Forbes, and activist Grover Norquist.