Coburn Battling Ethics Committee

The Hill, a newspaper that covers Capitol Hill, reported today that Sen. Tom Coburn has been warned by the Senate Ethics Committee to stop delivering babies for free or face censure, a severe punishment.

The senator, a practicing physician, battled the committee and the full Senate when he first took office in 2005. He was told that he couldn’t accept fees for his work and has been tending to patients for no charge.  But the Ethics Committee warned him to stop.



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