Coburn Hearing on Stimulus Contractors' Tax Bill (May 24, 2011) WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) holds a hearing Tuesday on a Government Accountability Office report that $24 billion in federal stimulus money went to contractors who owed nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars in back taxes. According to the document from the non-partisan GAO, 3,700 grantees owed a total of $757 million dollars in unpaid taxes. « back |