Sen. Tom Coburn

Not Working 9 to 5

UPDATED 19:50 PM EDT, March 27, 2013 | BY Phillip Swarts

As hundreds of federal employees face unpaid leave, a prominent Republican senator is demanding the government's human resources office consider taking action against employees who aren't doing their work on the government's dime.

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UPDATED 4:39 AM EST, December 12, 2012

Loan a Drone

Far from the battlefields of Afghanistan, a Predator drone was summoned into action last year to spy on a North Dakota farmer who allegedly refused to return a half dozen of his neighbor’s cows that had strayed onto his pastures.

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UPDATED 12:35 PM EST, December 14, 2012

Homeland's Urban Follies

A $7.1 billion Homeland Security Department program to make cities safer from terrorism has paid for 13 sno-cone machines in Michigan, a $98,000 underwater robot in Columbus, Ohio, an armored vehicle for a tiny New Hampshire town that uses it to patrol the annual pumpkin festival, and humorous videos that offered little valuable information for fighting real threats, according to an investigation by Sen. Tom Coburn.

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