WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, issued the following floor statement: * * * Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) on Friday made remarks on the House floor in opposition to two connected pieces of legislation, a Senate-passed infrastructure package (Senate Amendment to H.R. 3684) and an unscored multi-trillion-dollar reconciliation bill (H.R. 5376). The infrastructure legislation passed the House late Friday evening and will proceed to the president's desk. For the reconciliation legis  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 -- Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Congressman Frank Lucas (OK-03) released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives voted to adopt H.R. 3684- the Senate Infrastructure bill: "While Congress has worked over the years to advance the modernization and the efficiency of our infrastructure, this is an imperfect bill. As important as infrastructure is to connecting our communities and economies to one another, unfortunately  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 -- Rep. Markwayne Mullin, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Congressman Markwayne Mullin (OK-02) released the following statement after voting no on the $1.2 trillion "infrastructure" package. "Socialism is not infrastructure," Mullin said. "Only $110 billion of this package will go towards improving actual infrastructure, like roads and bridges, and Oklahoma would only receive a small fraction of that money. Roughly 90 percent of this package will go to socia  more