WASHINGTON, May 20 -- House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following statement: * * * House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today after Oklahoma's Republican-controlled Legislature passed a restrictive abortion ban that would severly limit women's access to the full range of reproductive health care. "In case anyone had any doubt what would happen if the Supreme Court strikes down Roe v. Wade this summer, Oklahoma's Republican-controll  more

WASHINGTON, May 20 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release and letter: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) and Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) led a group of Senators in sending a letter to the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security opposing the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Disinformation Governance Board and urging that no funding for the Board be included in the fiscal year 2023 appropriations bill. Lankford also introduced stand-alone legislati  more

WASHINGTON, May 20 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) released the following statement after voting against H.R. 7688, the Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act. "Let's be clear about what H.R. 7688 actually is, and that is an attempt by Democrats to deflect away from the failed energy policies of the Biden Administration that created the current energy crisis and record high gas prices," said Cole. "The president is solely respon  more

WASHINGTON, May 20 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives voted on two pieces of legislation concerning the nationwide baby formula shortage. This included passage of H.R. 7790, the Infant Formula Supplemental Appropriations Act, which Cole opposed, and H.R. 7791, the Access to Baby Formula Act, which he supported. "While mothers and families struggle to find formula   more

WASHINGTON, May 20 -- Rep. Stephanie Bice, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on May 19, 2022: House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Congresswoman Stephanie Bice (R-OK), and Congresswoman Ashley Hinson (R-IA) introduced legislation today called the Babies Need Formula Now Act to increase the baby formula supply for parents as soon as possible. In addition to addressing the immediate crisis parent  more

WASHINGTON, May 20 -- Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, issued the following statement on May 19, 2022: * * * U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), today praised Senate passage of H.R. 7691, a bill providing supplemental funding to support Ukraine. The bill provides nearly $20 billion for the Department of Defense to provide additional military aid to the Ukrainian armed forces as they continue to fight Russian aggression, provide mission  more

WASHINGTON, May 20 -- Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, issued the following opening remarks on May 19, 2022: U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), today gave opening remarks at a hearing on the Department of Energy's and National Nuclear Security Administration's fiscal year 2023 budget request. Witnesses included: the Honorable Jennifer Granholm, Secretary of Energy; and the Honorable Jill Hruby, Administrator of the National Nuclear Se  more

WASHINGTON, May 20 -- Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on May 19, 2022: U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), today questioned the Honorable Jill Hruby, Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), on how the Department of Energy's fiscal year 2023 budget request does not keep nuclear modernization programs on track. Inhofe: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Madam Secretary, you answered   more

WASHINGTON, May 20 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Senator James Lankford (R-OK), lead Republican on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Government Operations and Border Management, gave an update to Oklahomans from the Senate floor on the ongoing chaos at the southern border as well as solutions to the border crisis. He called on Biden to simply enforce the law and implement commonsense enforcement protocols. Lankford also discu  more

WASHINGTON, May 20 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on May 19, 2022: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today questioned Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland, about why the Biden Administration is standing in the way of US energy and mineral development when, at the same time, Lankford noted yesterday, they are calling for lower prices at the pump. In today's Senate Energy and Natural Resources hearing about the President's budget proposal for the Department of  more

WASHINGTON, May 20 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following statement: * * * Senator James Lankford (R-OK) released a statement following passage of the Ukraine Supplemental Aid Package. "Now is the moment to take President Reagan's advice and seek 'peace through strength.' Reagan fought for eight years for the breakup of the Soviet Union; we should not sit by and watch Putin reassemble that empire again. After Biden's weak withdrawal from Afghanistan, if the United States aba  more

WASHINGTON, May 20 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release and letter on May 19, 2022: Senators James Lankford (R-OK), Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-KS), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), and several of their Senate colleagues are demanding answers from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding its inadequate investigation into Abbott Nutrition's Michigan manufacturing facility and failure to mitigate the nationwide baby formula shortage. The Senators are also seeki  more