WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 -- Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Oklahoma, ranking Republican member of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, issued the following news release on Oct. 21, 2021: Science, Space, and Technology Committee Ranking Member Frank Lucas (R-OK) and House Republicans, led by Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) and Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-AR), urged President Biden today to immediately reconsider radical partisan   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on Oct. 21, 2021: Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) and Congressman Ron Kind (WI-03) today introduced the Fairness for Rural Medicare Beneficiaries Act. This bipartisan legislation would change an existing policy that requires Medicare beneficiaries at rural critical access hospitals (CAHs) to pay more in coinsurance than patients who receive the same care at larger acute care hospitals. "I am proud to join my colle  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 -- Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on Oct. 21, 2021: Yesterday, U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), senior member of the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, questioned witnesses at a hearing to assess the Environmental Protection Agency's ongoing and proposed responses to the presence of PFAS chemicals in our environment. Witnesses included: the Honorable Radhika Fox, Assistant Administrator, Office of Water, U.S. Environmental Prot  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 -- Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, issued the following statement on Oct. 21, 2021: * * * U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, today released the following statement after the committee received a classified briefing on security in Afghanistan and south and central Asia: "Today's briefing confirmed yet again what we've known all along: the United States is now less safe than before President Biden's disastrous decision to  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 -- 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, Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Rob Portman (R-Ohio), ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, today sent a letter to the inspectors general of the Department of State, Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, a  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today joined Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Pat Toomey (R-PA), and their Republican colleagues to introduce the Prohibiting IRS Financial Surveillance Act, a bill to prevent the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from implementing Democrats' plan to give the agency access to transaction information of virtually every American. Lankford has already spoken out on the  more