WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, issued the following weekly column on Feb. 18, 2022: On March 1, President Joe Biden will speak before a joint session of Congress and deliver his first official State of the Union address. If he chose to be honest about the true state of national affairs, he would acknowledge the plethora of crises of his own making and outline solutions to address them. First, President Biden needs to address the worsening economic crisis in our country. For   more

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, Feb. 19 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) sent a letter to the Acting Department of Defense (DOD) Inspector General Sean O'Donnell to ask him to audit DOD's process for reviewing religious accommodation requests for the COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Lankford previously sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin demanding to know why, despite 19,979 known requests for religious accommodations from the  more

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, Feb. 19 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) joined Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) and 125 of their colleagues to demand the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) immediately restore more stringent oversight of chemical abortion pills, including the in-person dispensing requirement the FDA suspended in December. They sent a letter to FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf that cites studies that affirm the incre  more

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, Feb. 19 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) joined Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and more than half of Senate Republicans in sending a letter to US Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Pete Buttigieg regarding the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) December 16, 2021 memorandum, "Policy on Using Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Resources to Build a Better America." In the letter, the senator  more