WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- Rep. Stephanie Bice, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on Aug. 4, 2021: Congresswoman Stephanie Bice (OK-05) joined U.S. Representative Randy Feenstra (IA-04) and 87 of their House colleagues in sending a letter to President Biden, urging him to renounce his plan to cap like-kind exchanges -- a policy that would result in higher taxes for farmers and small businesses owners. "Rural communities and family farmers are an important part of our economy in Oklahoma  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) joined U.S. Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and 16 other Republican senators in introducing legislation (S. 2587) that ends lending to China from multilateral development banks, including the World Bank and Asian Development Bank. The World Bank and the Asian Development Bank were created to assist developing countries and help eliminate extreme poverty. Despite having access t  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on Aug. 4, 2021: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today voted to oppose the nomination of Mr. Ed Gonzalez to be the Director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) when his nomination came before the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. "I have serious questions with the reports from Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers that the Biden Administration is 'handcuffing' law enfor  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release on Aug. 4, 2021: U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. - a graduate of Kansas State and the University of Kansas School of Medicine - sent a letter today to Attorney General Merrick Garland asking the Department of Justice (DOJ) to launch an investigation into the allegation that ESPN is encouraging and working to ensure the University of Texas in Austin and the University of Oklahoma in Norman move to the Southe  more