hadit
08-18-2008, 12:07 PM
You know somebody's doing something right when the establishment is this riled at him. A pro-lifer puts his money where his mouth is by helping these women, and gets reprimanded. :nonono:
In June, the Senate Ethics Committee began an initial look into Dodd's and Conrad's discounted Countrywide Financial VIP loans, as is fitting. Meanwhile, with all of the ethics stinkbombs lurking in Washington, the committee, chaired by California Democrat Barbara Boxer, is aiming its guns at Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., for "a serious violation of Senate rules."
Coburn's bad? An obstetrician by profession, Coburn won't heed the committee's threat to reprimand him for delivering babies back home in Oklahoma - for free.
-snip-
When a member of the House, Coburn delivered 400 babies under an agreement with ethics meisters that allowed him to do so - if he charged only enough to cover his expenses.
When elected to the Senate, which was first run by Republicans and now Democrats, Ethics Committee members told Coburn that if he wants to treat patients - largely poor and "at risk" mothers - he could not charge them, and thus would have to eat the costs of his practice.
The Senate Ethics Committee allows big-buck book deals for U.S. senators, but in a May memorandum, it told Coburn "you are allowed to practice medicine if you provide such services for free." So he started working for nothing.
Even free wasn't good enough.
http://links.sfgate.com/c/a/2008/08/14/EDOD129KE2.DTL
In June, the Senate Ethics Committee began an initial look into Dodd's and Conrad's discounted Countrywide Financial VIP loans, as is fitting. Meanwhile, with all of the ethics stinkbombs lurking in Washington, the committee, chaired by California Democrat Barbara Boxer, is aiming its guns at Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., for "a serious violation of Senate rules."
Coburn's bad? An obstetrician by profession, Coburn won't heed the committee's threat to reprimand him for delivering babies back home in Oklahoma - for free.
-snip-
When a member of the House, Coburn delivered 400 babies under an agreement with ethics meisters that allowed him to do so - if he charged only enough to cover his expenses.
When elected to the Senate, which was first run by Republicans and now Democrats, Ethics Committee members told Coburn that if he wants to treat patients - largely poor and "at risk" mothers - he could not charge them, and thus would have to eat the costs of his practice.
The Senate Ethics Committee allows big-buck book deals for U.S. senators, but in a May memorandum, it told Coburn "you are allowed to practice medicine if you provide such services for free." So he started working for nothing.
Even free wasn't good enough.
http://links.sfgate.com/c/a/2008/08/14/EDOD129KE2.DTL