WASHINGTON, July 31 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, ranking Republican member of the House Rules Committee, issued the following remarks on July 30, 2021, at a hearing on the Protecting Renters from Evictions Act: * * * We're here today on an emergency measure concerning the eviction moratorium. As members of the committee know, a nationwide eviction moratorium has been in place since last September. It has since been extended multiple times and expires tomorrow. Unfortunately, even though the   more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04), Vice Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee, released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives considered annual funding bills for fiscal year 2022. Advanced along party lines, the legislation passed by Democrats this week included H.R. 4502, a seven-bill package, along with H.R. 4373 and H.R. 4346. Together, the legislation covers nine of the 1  more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- Rep. Kevin Hern, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Representative Kevin Hern (OK-01) officially joined an amicus brief in support of Dobbs v. Jackson, a case headed to the Supreme Court. In Dobbs v. Jackson, SCOTUS granted review to a challenge of a Mississippi law prohibiting abortions after 15 weeks. The question before the Supreme Court is whether all pre-viability prohobitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional. In the amicus brief, Rep. Hern and  more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Oklahoma, ranking Republican member of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, issued the following news release on July 30, 2021: House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Ranking Member Frank Lucas and Republican Committee Members sent a letter to Committee Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johnson and Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight Chairman Bill Foster requesting an investigation into the origins of COVID-19. On July 14, 202  more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Oklahoma, ranking Republican member of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, issued the following news release on July 30, 2021: To ensure that research and technology development carried out by our National Laboratories and other programs stimulates cutting-edge innovation and local economic development, U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury (N.M.-01-D), the newest member of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, introduce  more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on July 30, 2021: Senator James Lankford (R-OK), lead Republican on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Government Operations and Border Management, sent a letter to 54 federal agencies to gain additional information about the use of taxpayer-funded union time by federal employees. Lankford was joined in sending the letters by Senators Richard Burr (R-NC), Ron Johnson (R-W  more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) joined Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and their colleagues to introduce legislation that would codify the Trump-era Navigable Waters Protection Rule (NWPR) in light of the Biden Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) promising to replace the NWPR with a new rule that goes even further than the Obama-era Waters of the United States (W  more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) joined an amicus brief signed by more than 220 members of Congress supporting the state of Mississippi in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which presents the Supreme Court with the opportunity to overturn Roe v. Wade. "The right to life is the most fundamental human right," said Lankford. "The government has the responsibility to honor the gift of life at every  more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) joined Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK) to lead a letter to the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) urging them to extend the public comment period for the proposed rule seeking to list two Distinct Population Segments (DPSs) of the lesser prairie-chicken (LPC) under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) by at least six months. The original public comment period was set for August 2, 2021  more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, chairman, and Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, ranking member, of the Senate Armed Services Committee issued the following statements on July 30, 2021, on the death of ex-Sen. Carl M. Levin, D-Michigan: * * * Senator Reed paid tribute to Senator Levin with the following: "I am deeply saddened by the loss of my friend and colleague, Carl Levin. Beyond his legacy as an extraordinary and far-sighted leader in the Senate, he was a profoundly comp  more