WASHINGTON, March 11 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04), Vice Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee, released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives passed the omnibus appropriations package for fiscal year 2022 that includes all 12 annual government funding titles as well as supplemental funding to counter Russian aggression. "While Congress should have reached this point months ago, I am please  more

WASHINGTON, March 11 -- Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Oklahoma, ranking Republican member of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, issued the following news release: House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Ranking Member Frank Lucas (R-Okla.), and Subcommittee on the Environment Ranking Member Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) renewed their request for all reports, documents, and communications related to allegations of a to  more

WASHINGTON, March 11 -- Rep. Markwayne Mullin, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on March 9, 2022: Congressman Markwayne Mullin (OK-02) released the following statement following tonight's votes in the U.S. House of Representatives. Mullin voted yes on H.R. 6968, the Suspending Energy Imports from Russia Act and Security Division 1 of H.R. 2471, the Consolidated Appropriations Act. "This ban on Russian crude oil and petroleum imports is long overdue," Mullin said. "While the Suspe  more

WASHINGTON, March 11 -- Rep. Markwayne Mullin, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Congressman Markwayne Mullin (OK-02), member of House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and Congresswoman Victoria Spartz (IN-05), the first and only Ukrainian-American in Congress, introduced a bill yesterday to allow United States citizens to volunteer to fight Russia on behalf of Ukraine. H.R. 7039, the Volunteer Fighters Exemption Act of 2022, would provide a 10-year exemption to current   more

WASHINGTON, March 11 -- Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on March 10, 2022: U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), today submitted the following remarks for the record at a SASC hearing to receive testimony on the posture of the United States Indo-Pacific Command and United States Forces Korea. Witnesses included: Admiral John Aquilino, Commander, United States Indo-Pacific Command; and General Paul LaCam  more

WASHINGTON, March 11 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on March 10, 2022: Following his Q&A in a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing this morning on how to use energy "as a tool and a weapon," Senator James Lankford (R-OK) introduced the Energy Regulations Certainty Act to prevent President Biden from issuing new US oil and gas regulations and restrictions until after Russian troops have withdrawn from Ukraine. Lankford also addressed the Se  more

WASHINGTON, March 11 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Following the Defense Department's decision to reject Poland's plans to provide MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, Senator James Lankford (R-OK) joined Senators Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Mitt Romney (R-Utah) and their colleagues to call on President Biden to work with Poland and our NATO allies to expedite the transfer of aircraft and air defense systems, as well as additional support capabilities, to Ukraine  more

WASHINGTON, March 11 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Senators James Lankford (R-OK) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) along with Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Steve Daines (R-MT), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Roger Marshall (R-KS), Thom Tillis (R-NC), John Hoeven (R-ND), and Rick Scott (R-FL) introduced the Preempting Misguided Appeasement and Financing of Destabilizing Regimes Act. The bill would prohibit the importation of Iranian and Venezuelan crude oil, petroleum, petroleum prod  more

WASHINGTON, March 11 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) joined Newsmax Wake Up America and Fox News Radio The Brian Kilmeade Show to discuss that President Joe Biden is pushing made in America except for US oil and gas, and reacting to the latest inflation numbers jumping from 7.5 percent to 7.9 percent, and the latest of the bloated government funding spending bill. Lankford was clear, that the US should not buy oil from the Ir  more