WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 -- Rep. Stephanie Bice, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on Sept. 29, 2021: Representative Stephanie Bice, a member of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC), today questioned Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, and General Kenneth McKenzie, Commander of U.S. Central Command, on the Biden Administration's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. "Americans deserve to know the reasons for the catastrophic with  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, ranking Republican member of the House Rules Committee, issued the following floor statement on Sept. 29, 2021, on the House amendment to the Promoting Physical Activity for Americans Act (S. 1301): * * * Today's rule covers a standalone bill that suspends the national debt limit through the end of 2022. Today's item does not come up out of a vacuum. Just last week, the Democratic majority in the House passed a continuing resolution to fund t  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, ranking Republican member of the House Rules Committee, issued the following statement on Sept. 29, 2021, at a hearing on the Promoting Physical Activity for Americans Act (S. 1301): * * * Our hearing today covers one item on very short notice. The bill before us today would suspend the debt ceiling through the end of 2022. Just last week, House Democrats passed a continuing resolution that included a suspension of the debt ceiling. As expect  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on Sept. 29, 2021: Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives passed the House Amendment to S. 1301, a measure to suspend the debt limit through the end of 2022. This vote comes after House Democrats last week put forward and passed a continuing resolution with the same suspension of the debt limit, which has stalled in the U.S. Senate. Cole opposed the  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 -- Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on Sept. 29, 2021: Congressman Frank Lucas (OK-03) released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives passed a measure suspending the debt limit through the end of 2022. "Since the beginning of this Congress, Congressional Democrats have sidestepped having to work with Republicans by using a fast-track, party-line procedure to advance their partisan agenda. Throughout the last electio  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 -- Rep. Stephanie Bice, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on Sept. 29, 2021: Representative Stephanie Bice (OK-05), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, and Representative Richard Hudson (NC-08), along with 157 of their colleagues, sent a letter to the chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees, urging the full removal of a "red flag" provision in H.R. 4350, the House National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) during  more