WASHINGTON, March 3 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) released the following statement after President Joe Biden delivered his State of the Union address this evening before a joint session of Congress. "At such a perilous time in the history of the world, I was encouraged that President Joe Biden used his State of the Union address to further condemn Vladimir Putin's unprovoked aggression and to commit additional lethal and humanitar  more

TULSA, Oklahoma, Feb. 25 -- Rep. Kevin Hern, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Representative Kevin Hern (OK-01) released the following statement after this morning's announcement of Ketanji Brown Jackson as Biden's nominee to the Supreme Court of the United States. "Our nation is on the precipice of disaster," said Rep. Hern. "It has never been more important to empower the checks and balances on the federal government. Our Supreme Court is meant to uphold our Constitution and pr  more

WASHINGTON, March 3 -- Rep. Kevin Hern, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on March 1, 2022: Representative Kevin Hern (OK-01) released the following statement after President Joe Biden finished his first State of the Union Address to a joint session of Congress. "There was only one thing Oklahomans needed to hear from their president tonight: an immediate commitment to energy independence," said Rep. Hern. "We didn't hear that. President Biden could have announced the relaunch of   more

WASHINGTON, March 3 -- Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Recently, Congressman Frank Lucas (OK-03) released the following statement after joining Representatives Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05) and Bruce Westerman (AR-04) in introducing the American Energy Independence from Russia Act. "Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is deeply troubling. As this moment of international crisis, Russia is leveraging its energy resources over the United States and our Western a  more

WASHINGTON, March 3 -- Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Oklahoma, issued the following statement: * * * Congressman Frank Lucas (OK-03) released the following statement responding to President Joe Biden's State of the Union. "Tonight, President Biden delivered his State of the Union address. Just like in his speech last year marking his first 100 days, President Biden spoke at length about his leadership, and of policies and actions that were supposed to put our country on the right path. But as a nation,  more

WASHINGTON, March 3 -- Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on March 2, 2022: This morning, Congressman Frank Lucas (OK-03) joined his colleagues on the House Committee on Financial Services for a hearing with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on the state of the U.S. economy. Lucas questioned Federal Reserve Chairman Powell on the impact Russia's invasion of Ukraine will have on commodity prices, as well as the importance of the U.S. financial system to have re  more

WASHINGTON, March 3 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) joined every Republican member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources to send a letter to President Biden outlining 10 steps he and Congress can take to regain America's energy dominance. Following President Biden's State of the Union address last night, Lankford addressed Biden's proposal to reduce gas prices and how releasing the strategic petroleum reserve  more

WASHINGTON, March 3 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on March 2, 2022: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) and Representative Vicky Hartzler (R-MO) today led a group of 54 bicameral members of Congress to file a brief at the Supreme Court in support of Coach Joe Kennedy in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District. In October 2021, Lankford and Hartzler sent an amicus brief to ask the Supreme Court to grant a review and subsequently reverse the Ninth Circuit's decision  more

WASHINGTON, March 3 -- Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: U.S. Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee sent a letter to President Joe Biden urging him to reconsider his reported decision to transfer terrorist Mohammed al-Qahtani from Guatanamo Bay to Saudi  more