Tom Coburn

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of May 26 - June 1, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies   -------------------- SERIES Trisha's Southern Kitchen In the season...

* Wealthiest 1 percent would pay larger share of premium * U.S. would pay 47 percent of premium instead of 62 percent * Biggest House-Senate dispute is food stamps for the poor WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - The wealthiest 20,000 U.S. farmers should...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The wealthiest 20,000 U.S. farmers should pay more for taxpayer subsidized crop insurance, the Senate voted on Thursday, adopting a measure that blended deficit reduction, populism and farm program reform. Senators approved the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Thursday voted to limit the amount of government subsidies the wealthiest farmers receive when purchasing crop insurance. The vote was one small victory this week for critics of a massive, five-year farm bill that...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A string of unrelated events is highlighting divisions among Republicans just when they'd like to show a united front and take full advantage of President Barack Obama's latest political problems. Tensions between libertarian-...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday offered condolences for the victims of a deadly tornado in Oklahoma and pledged to focus the nation's resources on recovery and rebuilding. "As a nation, our full focus right now is on the...

Having spent nine years in Oklahoma, I found much about that state’s people to respect and admire—particularly their faith and their resiliency, which are intertwined in ways not understood by those who have never lived in the Bible Belt. They...

By David Lawder WASHINGTON, May 21 (Reuters) - Amid expressions of horror, grief and resolve over the devastating tornado that smashed into suburban Oklahoma City, many U.S. lawmakers expressed relief on Tuesday that they took action in January to bulk...

WASHINGTON -- When $50 billion in disaster aid for victims of Superstorm Sandy came before Congress this year, three of Oklahoma’s five representatives and both of its senators were among the "no" votes. At the time, some of the Oklahoma lawmakers...

The U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to repeal the Affordable Care Act -- Obamacare -- with all five House members from Oklahoma joining the majority. Meanwhile, U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn has introduced a bill to strike funding for one of the...

Leave it to senators to create something called the Infrastructure Deauthorization Commission to do a job that they might consider doing themselves. The Senate is moving toward final passage of the Water Resources Development Act, a multi-billion dollar...

Even after Sept. 11, privacy still matters. I called Wade Setter last week to make sure I won't show up on a super-secret intelligence report if I decide to buy a pressure cooker at Target or Walmart. Setter, a 34-year veteran police chief and lawman,...