Oklahoma senator wants to offset tornado aid with other cuts Both Republican Oklahoma senators voted against federal relief for Hurricane Sandy victims

Sen. Tom Coburn, a Republican from Oklahoma, said that he would "absolutely" push to offset any federal relief for the devastating tornado in Oklahoma with cuts elsewhere, Roll Call reports.

"That's always been his position [to offset disaster aid]," Coburn spokesman John Hart told the Huffington Post. "He supported offsets to the bill funding the OKC bombing recovery effort."

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Both Coburn and his colleague James Inhofe, also a Republican from Oklahoma, have repeatedly voted against federal disaster relief for various parts of the country, including, most recently, the aid package for Hurricane Sandy victims. Both have also opposed increasing FEMA's funding.

But, as the Huffington Post points out, Coburn and Inhofe have also previously supported disaster aid for their own state: