WASHINGTON, March 18 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on March 17, 2022: During this Sunshine Week, Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today pushed for sunlight on trillions in federal funds spent in the name of "COVID relief" in a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing, entitled, "Pandemic Response and Accountability: Reducing Fraud and Expanding Access to COVID-19 Relief through Effective Oversight." Lankford continues to call for   more

WASHINGTON, March 18 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on March 17, 2022: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today showed his support for our important nonprofit community in Oklahoma, the nation, and around the world as he discussed the vital role they play in feeding, clothing, sheltering, and supporting the most vulnerable among us. Lankford served as Ranking Member in today's Senate Finance Committee hearing, entitled, "Examining Charitable Giving and Trends   more

WASHINGTON, March 18 -- Rep. Stephanie Bice, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on March 17, 2022: The bipartisan leadership of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees, Representatives Adam Smith (D-Wash.) and Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC), and Senators Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), today announced their appointments to the   more

WASHINGTON, March 18 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on March 17, 2022: Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04), member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, today introduced a House Resolution supporting the transfer of fighter aircraft to Ukraine for its self-defense. "President Biden was right: Vladimir Putin is a war criminal. Now, he should back up his statement by reversing his decision not to send F-16s to Poland as they support Ukraine in providing t  more

WASHINGTON, March 18 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on March 17, 2022: Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) today introduced the Protect American Election Administration Act. If enacted, this legislation would block the private takeover of government election administration, protect individual states' voting laws, prevent private funding for ballot harvesting or curing and prevent the use of election infrastructure to conduct ideologically motivated voter outreach campa  more

WASHINGTON, March 18 -- Rep. Kevin Hern, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on March 17, 2022: Representative Kevin Hern (OK-01) released the following statement after voting in favor of HR 7108, the Suspending Normal Trade Relations with Russia and Belarus Act. The bill passed the House on a vote of 424-8. "Yesterday, the whole of Congress listened as President Zelenskyy implored the US government to do more to protect his people," said Rep. Hern. "Today's vote further cripples th  more

WASHINGTON, March 18 -- Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on March 17, 2022: The bipartisan leadership of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees, Representatives Adam Smith (D-Wash.) and Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC), and Senators Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), today announced their appointments to the  more

WASHINGTON, March 18 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on March 17, 2022: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today stood firmly for parental rights and school choice when he called for the Senate to immediately pass his resolution to support parents having the freedom to choose the best educational environment for their kids and remain in control of whether or not they want their children exposed to "woke" ideologies at school, including Critical Race Theory and o  more

WASHINGTON, March 18 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Senators James Lankford (R-OK), Joni Ernst (R-IA), and Jacky Rosen (D-NV), co-chairs of the Senate Abraham Accords Caucus, provided the following statement to applaud the signature into law of the Israel Relations Normalization Act, which builds on the success of the Abraham Accords by strengthening and expanding normalization and peace agreements between Israel and United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan,   more

WASHINGTON, March 18 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Senators James Lankford (R-OK), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Rick Scott (R-FL), Roger Wicker (R-MS), and Mitt Romney (R-UT) introduced a Senate resolution urging the Biden Administration to facilitate the transfer of aircraft, such as MiG-29s, and air defense systems to Ukraine. Lankford pushed for more aid for Ukraine in his reaction to President Vol  more

WASHINGTON, March 18 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on March 17, 2022: Senators James Lankford (R-OK), Marco Rubio (R-FL), and 31 Republican Senators introduced a joint resolution under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to overturn the Biden Administration's 2021 Final Rule on the Title X Family Planning Program, which reversed the Trump Administration's 2019 Protect Life Rule that required family planning grantees to be physically and financially separat  more