Republican senator Tom Coburn announced tonight that he will be retiring at the end of this session of Congress, two years before the end of his term. Coburn, from Oklahoma, announced in November that ...

Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma has withdrawn a proposed amendment intended to make government agencies annually report on the number of firearms and amount of ammunition they possess. The amendment ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn was stubborn as a mule and conservative to his core. But the Oklahoma family doctor, known for railing against federal earmarks, didn’t let political ...

Former U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn and other supporters of a referendum petition to repeal a $400 million tax measure on Friday called on the Legislature to reconvene in special session to find a way to pay ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn has endorsed GOP candidate Dino Rossi in Washington state's Senate race. Rossi is a former state senator and two-time gubernatorial runner-up.

The conservative Oklahoma Republican has vowed to block attempts to expedite a final vote on a House-passed defense authorization bill over objections to a federal lands package inserted into the ...

Hours before voting to clear the way for health care reform in the Senate, Republican Senator Tom Coburn said on the floor, "What the American people ought to pray is that somebody can't make the vote ...

Tom Coburn, an ultraconservative Oklahoma Republican and family physician who in 16 years in Congress crusaded for limited government, using a rule-book technicality to block so many bills that ...

Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn announced Thursday he would retire at the end of the current session of Congress, giving up his last two years in office. His term was scheduled to end in 2016. Although the ...

Clarification: A video accompanying this story includes a quote from Tom Coburn that contains incorrect information. Oklahoma has fewer than half the number of school districts Texas has. The Texas ...

The Associated Press is reporting that Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) is the reason that “not a cent of the $1.15 billion the U.S. promised for rebuilding has arrived” to Haitians who are in dire need of ...

On Tuesday, The Post published a puff piece on Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), relating his life at the C Street House and his relationships with his roommates, including Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) and ...