WASHINGTON, May 11 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, ranking Republican member of the House Rules Committee, issued the following remarks on May 10, 2022, at a hearing on three bills: The bills are the Rights for the TSA Workforce Act (H.R. 903), Federal Firefighters Fairness Act (H.R. 2499) and Community Services Block Grant Modernization Act (H.R. 5129). * * * Today's hearing covers three items. The first I'll discuss, H.R. 903, the Rights for the TSA Workforce Act of 2022, should be familiar t  more

WASHINGTON, May 11 -- The House Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee on Environment issued the following testimony by Sherry Hunt, supervisory civil engineer for the Hydraulic Engineering Research Unit of the Agricultural Research Service in the Agriculture Department, involving a video conference hearing on March 2, 2022, entitled "Time Change: From Gray to Green - Advancing the Science of Nature-Based Infrastructure": * * * I am Dr. Sherry Hunt, Supervisory Civil Engineer of the U.S. D  more

WASHINGTON, May 11 -- Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas, issued the following news release on May 10, 2022: Senators Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee), John Boozman (R-Arkansas), Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Bill Hagerty (R-Tennessee), Jim Inhofe (R-Oklahoma), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Ben Sasse (R-Nebraska), and Roger Wicker (R-Mississippi) today introduced the Public Servant Protection Act, legislation to protect all government employees and  more

WASHINGTON, May 11 -- Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, issued the following opening remarks on May 10, 2022: U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), today delivered opening remarks at a SASC hearing on the rising national security threats amid growing inflation and an insufficient defense budget request. Witnesses include: Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence, and Lieutenant General Scott Berrier, Director of the Defense Intelli  more

WASHINGTON, May 11 -- Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, issued the following opening statement at a hearing on March 8, 2022, to receive testimony on the U.S. Strategic Command and U.S. Space Command in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2023 and the Future Years Defense Program: * * * I also want to welcome our witnesses and thank them for their long service in defense of our nation. Admiral Richard, General Dickinson  more

WASHINGTON, May 10 -- Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, issued the following opening statement at a hearing on March 1, 2022, to receive testimony on Global Security Challenges and Strategy: * * * I appreciate your holding this hearing as we prepare to evaluate the 2022 National Defense Strategy, which will be a significant task. As I've said at every hearing, our top national security officials continue to tell us that threats to U.S. interes  more

WASHINGTON, May 10 -- Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, issued the following opening statement at a hearing on April 26, 2022, to receive testimony on the health of the U.S. Department of Defense Industrial Base: * * * For four years, this committee has been using the 2018 National Defense Strategy (NDS) and the Commission report as our roadmap for the resources and tools we need to meet the threats we face. Both documents have helped accelerat  more

WASHINGTON, May 11 -- Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on May 10, 2022: U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), today questioned the Honorable Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence, and Lieutenant General Scott Berrier, Director of Defense Intelligence Agency, on current global threats posed by China and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Inhofe: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. For both of you, the   more

WASHINGTON, May 11 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Senator James Lankford (R-OK), a member of the Senate Finance Committee with jurisdiction over the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), celebrated a huge win for Oklahoma seniors and local pharmacies as Medicare officials finalized sweeping changes to Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D plans for seniors. Part of this now-final rule from CMS mimics plans for lowering out-of-pocket drug cost  more

WASHINGTON, May 11 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on May 10, 2022: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today joined Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) to lead a group of their Senate Republican colleagues in urging the Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Martha Williams not to cave in to activists' calls to restrict the use of lead ammo and tackle on public lands. The Senators wrote, "Policies or actions that reduce or limit sportsmen activities necessaril  more