WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 -- Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on Nov. 3, 2021: U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, announced today that Secretary Austin has failed to respond to his October 18 letter and answer specific questions about the readiness impacts of the Biden administration's mandate. "The inability of the Department of Defense to answer basic questions about the implementation of their vaccine mandate is  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, ranking Republican member of the House Rules Committee, issued the following remarks at a Nov. 3, 2021, hearing on the Build Back Better Act (H.R. 5376): * * * As delivered during today's hearing on a new Rules Committee Print to replace H.R. 5376: It may be a new day, but we are in the exact same spot as we were last Thursday. I am still flummoxed by what we are doing here. I reiterate what I said last week, Mr. Chairman. The Rules Committee  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 -- Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, issued the following opening statement at an Oct. 26, 2021, hearing on security in Afghanistan and South and Central Asia: * * * Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you to our witnesses for appearing today. Welcome back, Secretary Kahl. As the most senior policy advisor at DoD, it's appropriate that you agreed to testify in open session on these critical issues. Let's be clear why we're h  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 -- Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) joined Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Ranking Member of the HELP Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety, and 39 of their Republican colleagues in the Senate and other members in the U.S. House of Representatives today to formally move to disapprove and nullify President Biden's vaccine mandate on private employees under the Congressional Review Act: the official process   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 -- Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: U.S. Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), John Kennedy (R-La.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) reintroduced the WALL Act, legislation that would fully fund the border wall along the southern border. Their legislation, first introduced in December 2018, is also the first bill that will fund the wall by identifying specific fund  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on Nov. 3, 2021: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today opposed the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021, (also known as S.4). Lankford has been outspoken that Democrats' attempt to federalize our elections comes with significant negative consequences for our nation's free and fair elections. The procedural vote to move forward to debate the bill failed by a vote of 50-49. "This is the same son  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Senator James Lankford (R-OK), the lead Republican on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Government Operations and Border Management, today offered an amendment to the Countering Human Trafficking Act of 2021 during a business meeting of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Lankford's amendment would stop Biden's Department of Justice from "settling"   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on Nov. 3, 2021: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today spoke on the Senate floor in opposition to the Democrats' 2,000-page, $1.75 trillion "Build Back Better" proposal, which Biden claims is "paid for" but actually uses budget gimmicks to keep taxpayers on the hook and add to the debt. Lankford's remarks highlighted that the bill has been through numerous iterations since the left and the far-left Democrats  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Senators James Lankford (R-OK) and Mike Braun (R-IN) led more than 39 Senators to formally move to disapprove and nullify President Biden's vaccine mandate on private companies and their employees under the Congressional Review Act, the official process for Congress to eliminate an Executive Branch rule. Joining Lankford and Braun in the disapproval are Senators Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), R  more