WASHINGTON, March 12 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, issued the following weekly column on March 11, 2024: Last week, President Biden gave his third annual State of the Union address. However, unfortunately, instead of using this opportunity to unite our nation, President Biden gave a caustic and divisive speech, in which he utilized false claims in an attempt to persuade the American people into believing America is stronger today than it was three years ago. Now, I am going to debunk some of t  more

WASHINGTON, March 13 -- The Library of Congress issued the following news: A major portion of the papers of Supreme Court Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, consisting of approximately 600 containers, opens for research use March 11, in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. The collection documents the trajectory of O'Connor's life in politics and law at the state level in Arizona and later nationally, as the Supreme Court's first woman justice. Appointed to the court in 1981  more

AUSTIN, Texas, March 15 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release on March 14, 2024: Governor Greg Abbott today celebrated conservative, pro-economic growth values shared between the United Kingdom and Texas at The Margaret Thatcher Centre in London. Delivering the Seventh Ronald Reagan Lecture, the Governor's speech at The Margaret Thatcher Centre was one of several stops on the second day of his economic development trip to the United Kingdom. "President Ronald Reagan a  more