WASHINGTON, July 20 -- Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Oklahoma, ranking Republican member of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, issued the following news release: Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) along with Ranking Member Frank Lucas (R-OK) introduced the Bioeconomy Research and Development Act of 2021. This legislation would establish a National Engineering Biology Research and Development Program to advance engineering biology research. The bill would also expand the number of e  more

WASHINGTON, July 20 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, ranking Republican member of the House Rules Committee, issued the following remarks on July 19, 2021, at a hearing on the PFAS Action Act, Consumer Protection and Recovery Act and Allies Act: * * * We're here today on three items. I'll start with the two coming from the Committee on Energy and Commerce. Both are partisan bills that really should have been bipartisan ones. First is H.R. 2467, the PFAS Action Act. Our committee considered a ver  more

WASHINGTON, July 20 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, issued the following column: Over the past few weeks, the House Appropriations Committee, on which I serve as the Vice Ranking Member, has been working on the 12 annual bills that fund the entirety of the federal government. Indeed, the appropriations process is one of the most important functions of Congress and has generally been bipartisan with Democrats and Republicans working together to complete one of Congress's most critical roles. That   more

WASHINGTON, July 20 -- Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Oklahoma, ranking Republican member of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, issued the following news release on July 19, 2021: The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a new report, Spectrum Management: Agencies should strengthen collaborative mechanisms and processes to address potential interference. The report, which was requested by Chairwoman Johnson and Ranking Member Lucas in December of 2019, examined how spectr  more

WASHINGTON, July 20 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken demanding action after hearing from an increasing number of Oklahomans who are experiencing tremendous delays in the processing of their passport applications, some of whom paid for expedited processing and delivery for upcoming travel. The backlog of passports has ballooned to an unprecedented level of 2.2 million with  more