"COBURN ALSO TALKS LIKE -- well, no other politician dares to. When I asked him recently about his reputation as "a renegade," he stormed from his seat and boomed: "Congress is a renegade to the American ideal of limited government. We waste $200 billion a year here, at least." Then he calms down and adds: "Someone has to call Congress on the carpet and shame this institution into doing the right thing for the future generations." He calls earmarks "the gateway drug to overspending." As he explains, "If I have a $3 million project for Oklahoma, I have to vote for the multi-billion dollar [spending] bill to get the pork. You end up voting for bills you would never have voted for. And that's how appropriators buy votes and bloat the budget.""
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