WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, ranking Republican member of the House Rules Committee, issued the following remarks at a Dec. 14, 2021, hearing on the Combating International Islamophobia Act (H.R. 5665) and a resolution relating to the investigation of the events of Jan. 6, 2021: * * * Our hearing today covers two items. The first I'll address is H.R. 5665, the Combating International Islamophobia Act. As the committee is aware, H.R. 5665 establishes an Office to Monitor an  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, ranking Republican member of the House Rules Committee, issued the following remarks at a Dec. 14, 2021, hearing on a resolution (S.J. Res. 33) relating to relating to increasing the debt limit: * * * Today's hearing covers a single item, a measure to increase the debt limit by $2.5 trillion, the largest increase in the debt in history, which is expected to cover federal spending through the end of 2022. While I understand the need to address   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following statement: * * * Senator James Lankford (R-OK) issued the following statement after Senate Democrats voted to increase the debt ceiling, which Lankford has been critical of for months saying Democrats should be responsible for their reckless spending: "As I have stated throughout this process, I am strongly opposed to raising the debt ceiling without ever having a conversation about how to stop out-of-control federal  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 -- 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 joined Senators Rick Scott (R-FL), Pat Toomey (R-PA), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), and Mike Braun (R-IN) to introduce the Congressional Review of Agency Legal Settlements Act following reports that th  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on Dec. 14, 2021: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today joined Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Mike Braun (R-IN), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Tom Cotton (R-AR), and Marco Rubio (R-FL) to pen a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken demanding answers on why Nigeria was removed from the State Department's list of Countries of Particular Concern under the International Religious Freedom  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on Dec. 14, 2021: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today joined Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) to lead a group of bipartisan colleagues in a letter to Uzra Zeya, Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy and Human Rights at the US Department of State, ahead of her expected appointment as Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues, advocating for a US policy toward Tibet that protects the rights, auton  more