MSNBC - The Situation - 2005-09-14 (partial)

Name: MSNBC - The Situation - 2005-09-14 (partial)
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[0:00] us tonight of Oklahoma. Senator Coburn,

[0:02] thanks a lot for coming on.

[0:03] >> Glad to be with you, Tucker. It's been a

[0:05] long day.

[0:05] >> Yeah, I I bet it has been. You've been

[0:07] in the in the Roberts hearings all day

[0:09] long. Um, I think you're doing a this

[0:11] legislation is a great idea. Someone

[0:13] needs to oversee where this money is

[0:14] spent, but why should the federal

[0:16] government rebuild the battered area in

[0:18] the first place? Philosophically, why is

[0:19] it the federal government's

[0:20] responsibility to do that?

[0:21] >> Well, I don't think that that's what

[0:22] we're talking about right now,

[0:23] rebuilding. What we're talking about is

[0:25] meeting the needs of those people who

[0:27] have just been tremendously overwhelmed

[0:29] by the the greatest natural tra tragedy

[0:32] that this country's ever seen. Uh so I

[0:36] don't think the decision to rebuild by

[0:38] your tax dollars yet has been made.

[0:40] >> But $62 billion I mean that's not just

[0:42] food and water. I mean it's got to be

[0:44] going to infrastructure.

[0:44] >> Well I think that that raises the whole

[0:46] question is nobody knows and that's

[0:50] nobody knows where it's going. Nobody

[0:51] knows where came of where we got this

[0:53] estimate. And and the idea is is that we

[0:56] need to know and we need to know how the

[0:58] money is going out and it needs to be

[0:59] watched as it goes out rather than

[1:01] looked at after the fact. And so myself

[1:04] and Senator Obama uh put together a bill

[1:06] that both the majority leader and the

[1:08] minority leader of the Senate support

[1:10] and hopefully will come come through and

[1:12] it creates a chief financial officer and

[1:14] overseer for all t