WASHINGTON, March 31 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, ranking Republican member of the House Rules Committee, issued the following remarks at a March 30, 2022, hearing on the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act (H.R. 3617) and Affordable Insulin Now Act (H.R. 6833): * * * Today's hearing is on two items. The first I'll discuss is H.R. 3617, the MORE Act, which calls for decriminalizing marijuana and removing it from the Drug Enforcement Agency's drug schedules. The bill also pr  more

WASHINGTON, March 31 -- Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) met with members of the Norman Chamber of Commerce this week in Washington. They discussed a number of topics, including important infrastructure projects and the future of the Oklahoma aviation and aerospace industries. "It was wonderful to host the Norman Chamber of Commerce in Washington again," said Inhofe. "I was glad to hear about their priority infrastructure proje  more

WASHINGTON, March 31 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on March 30, 2022: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) called out the Biden Administration's proposal to end the use of Title 42 expulsions at the southern border and instead hide the chaos by relying on "interior processing" to move illegal immigrants into the country for processing and release. Lankford and his team warned Biden Administration officials directly about what a bad idea that is. He has warned Se  more

WASHINGTON, March 31 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on March 30, 2022: Senator James Lankford (R-OK), member of the Senate Finance and Energy and Natural Resources Committees, along with Senators Angus King (I-ME), John Cornyn (R-TX) and Mark Warner (D-VA) today introduced legislation to establish a secure supply chain of critical minerals and counter China's market dominance by leveraging the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) partnership, which inclu  more

WASHINGTON, March 31 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on March 30, 2022: Senators James Lankford (R-OK), Joni Ernst (R-IA), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) are leading a group of Senators to request answers from President Biden's National Security Advisor (NSA) Jake Sullivan on the speed, specifics, and supply of lethal aid provided to Ukraine. In their letter to Sullivan, the Senators write: "We request a timely response to these questions detailing your pro  more