WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, ranking Republican member of the House Rules Committee, issued the following remarks on Sept. 27, 2021, at a hearing on the Protect Older Job Applicants Act (H.R. 3992), PUMP for Nursing Mothers Act (H.R. 3110) and Family Violence Prevention and Services Improvement Act (H.R. 2119): * * * Our hearing today covers three items from the Education and Labor Committee. If there is a common theme today, it is that each sounds reasonable on its face,  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, issued the following column: Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed its version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2022. In arriving at this point in the process of advancing this comprehensive bill to authorize critical and sustainable funding for our national defense, I was proud of the manner in which members on both sides of the aisle worked together to deliver. When this bill was reported out of   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 -- Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on Sept. 27, 2021: U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) today voted against a continuing resolution and legislation that will allow Democrats to continue to increase their radical spending plans. "This debt limit increase and continuing resolution is all about paving the way for the Democrats' reckless tax and spend package--so I had no choice but to oppose it," Inhofe said. "Democrats are in disarray--they   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 -- Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: U.S. Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and U.S. Reps. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, today sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken an  more