WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on Jan. 11, 2022: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) participated in a Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing today focused on hydropower, which Oklahoma has 10 hydropower facilities. Lankford focused on the challenges with permitting and the relicensing process. Lankford noted that it takes longer to relicense hydropower facilities than to relicense a nuclear power plant. Lankford questioned  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on Jan. 11, 2022: Senator James Lankford (R-OK), along with Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL), Tim Scott (R-SC), John Cornyn (R-TX), Rick Scott (R-FL), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Roger Marshall (R-KS), Steve Daines (R-MT), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Ben Sasse (R-NE), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Mike Braun (R-IN), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), and John Kennedy (R-LA) introduced the Cor  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on Jan. 11, 2022: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today was joined by Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) to introduce the End Human Trafficking in Government Contracts Act of 2021 to ensure the US government is not funding or participating in human trafficking of vulnerable third-country workers through our contracts overseas, including those in defense and national security. The bill terminates contracts found to be  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, chairman, and Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, ranking member, of the Senate Armed Services Committee, issued the following joint statement on Jan. 11, 2022: * * * U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Jim Inhofe (R-OK), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, today released the following statement after the Department of Justice announced that Balfour Beatty Communities LLC pled guilty to one count of major fraud agai  more