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Podcast: Voices of Oklahoma
Episode: Dr Tom Coburn
Description: Tom Coburn is a physician, a former congressman and senator from Oklahoma, and is a member of the Republican Party.Coburn was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1994 as part of the Republican Revolution. He upheld his campaign pledge to serve no more than three consecutive terms and did not run for re-election in 2000. In 2004, he returned to political life with a successful run for the U.S. Senate. Coburn was re-elected to a second term in 2010 and pledged not to seek a third term in 2016. In January 2014, Coburn announced he would retire before the...