WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, issued the following floor statement on July 29, 2021: * * * Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04), Vice Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee, offered a motion to recommit (MTR) on the House floor to restore longstanding, bipartisan pro-life protections to annual appropriations bills for fiscal year 2022. Before Democrats removed these provisions from the bills reported by the Appropriations Committee earlier this month and considered on  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on July 29, 2021: Congressman Frank Lucas (OK-03) applauded the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) recent announcement that the USDA's National Institute of Food & Agriculture (NIFA) awarded $1,789,550 to Langston University to support and expand agriculture research, teaching, and extension activities. "Langston University has long played an important role in the field of food and agricultural  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Congressman Frank Lucas (OK-03) released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 4502, the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Agriculture, Rural Development, Energy and Water Development, Financial Services and General Government, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act o  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on July 29, 2021: Yesterday, U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), senior member of the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, questioned witnesses at an EPW hearing entitled: Examining the Benefits of Investing in USACE Water Infrastructure Projects. Witnesses included: Amy Larson, Founding Partner, Larson Strategies LLC; Robert McCoy, President and CEO, Amherst Madison Inc. (on behalf of Waterways Co  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on July 29, 2021: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) joined Senators Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) and Steve Daines (R-MT) along with 25 senators today to issue a public comment letter opposing the Biden Administration's attempt to ignore congressional intent and the unequivocal legal requirements regarding abortion coverage offered through the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The letter to Health and Human Services (HHS)  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: On Thursday, Senators James Lankford (R-OK), Ron Johnson (R-WI), Rand Paul (R-KY), Rick Scott (R-FL), and Josh Hawley (R-MO), all members of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, wrote a letter to the Committee Chairman Senator Gary Peters (D-MI) regarding letters sent to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Na  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) along with Senators Ron Johnson (R-WI), Roger Wicker (R-MS), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Pat Toomey (R-PA), Mike Lee (R-UT), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), John Barrasso (R-WY), Mike Braun (R-IN), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and Rand Paul (R-KY) introduced the Repeal Insurance Plans of the Multi-State Program Act (RIP MSP Act) on Wednesday -- an effo  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Senator James Lankford, led by Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), Steve Daines (R-MT), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Mike Braun (R-IN), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Todd Young (R-IN), John Thune (R-SD), and Jim Inhofe (R-OK) introduced the Restore Public Health Institution Trust Act, which would require the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to review the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's  more