WASHINGTON, March 23 -- Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Oklahoma, ranking Republican member of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, issued the following news release: House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Ranking Member Frank Lucas (R-OK) and Energy Subcommittee Ranking Member Randy Weber (R-TX) sent a letter to Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm requesting information about the Department's efforts to assist the liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry to protect itself fr  more

WASHINGTON, March 23 -- Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, issued the following opening remarks on March 22, 2022: U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), today delivered opening remarks at a hearing to consider nominations for key Department of Defense and Department of Energy civilian roles. Nominees include: Dr. William LaPlante, nominated to be Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment; Erik Raven, nominated to be Under   more

WASHINGTON, March 23 -- Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on March 22, 2022: U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), today questioned key Department of Defense nominees about the United States' asymmetric military advantage and readiness challenges facing our forces today. Nominees included: Dr. William LaPlante, nominated to be Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment; Erik Raven, nominat  more

WASHINGTON, March 23 -- Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: U.S. Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) introduced legislation to advance Impact Aid programs closer to full funding and to increase funding for public school districts on federal land, which are tax-exempt and therefore have significantly less tax revenue to meet their schools' and students' needs. In 1950, Congress created Impact A  more

WASHINGTON, March 23 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) joined Cavuto Coast to Coast on Fox Business to discuss Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination to serve as an Associate Justice on the US Supreme Court, with whom Lankford says he plans to meet next week face to face. Lankford also discussed the ongoing situation on the Russian invasion (https://www.lankford.senate.gov/news/press-releases/lankford-graham-colleagues-urge-m  more

WASHINGTON, March 23 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on March 22, 2022: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today joined Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL), Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Jim Risch (R-ID), Dick Durbin (D-IL), and Chris Coons (D-DE) to introduce legislation to reauthorize the independent US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) through 2024. "The United States has the responsibility to call out religious persecution around the world. The US Commi  more

WASHINGTON, March 23 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Senators James Lankford (R-OK) and Jerry Moran (R-KS) along with Representatives Tracey Mann (R-KS) and Cindy Axne (R-IA) led 82 of their colleagues in sending a letter to the US International Trade Commission (ITC) requesting it address the strain on the fertilizer supply by eliminating duties on phosphate fertilizer products imported from Morocco, and suspending the process to impose new duties on urea  more

WASHINGTON, March 23 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on March 22, 2022: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today joined Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, and all other Finance Committee Republicans to send a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen requesting that she provide an update on the status of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds reports, which by law are to be issued annually by April 1. The reports ha  more