WASHINGTON, June 1 -- Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Oklahoma, ranking Republican member of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, issued the following statement: * * * House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Ranking Member Frank Lucas released a statement congratulating the Oak Ridge National Lab's Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) on achieving exascale computing on the Frontier system. Frontier can perform a quintillion (one billion, billion) calculations per second and was named   more

WASHINGTON, June 1 -- Rep. Markwayne Mullin, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on May 31, 2022: 12 Republican Members of Congress led by House Republican Conference Vice Chairman Mike Johnson (LA-04) today introduced legislation to make the act of knowingly leaking draft Supreme Court opinions a federal crime. "In response to the leaked Dobbs draft opinion, there has been widespread agreement on one thing--it is entirely unclear whether the leaker can face any legal liability. Repr  more

WASHINGTON, May 31 -- Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, issued the following opening statement at a hearing on May 10, 2022, o receive testimony on worldwide threats: * * * When our witnesses testified before this committee last year, they provided a dire assessment of the threats to our national security. It's clear and, I really can't overstate this, the security situation we face today is significantly more dangerous and complex than it has   more

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, June 1 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) joined Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) and their colleagues to introduce the No WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty Without Senate Approval Act, which requires that any convention or agreement resulting from the work of the World Health Organization's (WHO) intergovernmental negotiating body be deemed a treaty, requiring the advice and consent of a supermajority of the Se  more