WASHINGTON, June 9 -- The House Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee on Environment issued the following information for a hearing entitled " What's the Forecast: A Look at the Future of Weather Research" at 10 a.m. on June 14, 2022, at 2318 Rayburn House Office Building: Witnesses * Dr. Bradley Colman, President-Elect of the American Meteorological Society; Director of Weather-Strategy, Bayer & The Climate Corporation * Dr. Kevin R. Petty, VP, Weather and Earth Intelligence, Spire Glob  more

WASHINGTON, June 9 -- Rep. Stephanie Bice, R-Oklahoma, issued the following statement on June 9, 2022: * * * Representative Stephanie Bice (R-OK) released the following statement. "H.R. 2377 uses broad language to cast aside an individual's due process rights and represents a serious infringement of the Constitutional rights of responsible and lawful gun owners," Rep. Bice said. "Ultimately, this legislation would do little to save lives or reduce crime and would violate American's right to   more

WASHINGTON, June 9 -- Rep. Stephanie Bice, R-Oklahoma, issued the following statement on June 9, 2022: * * * Representative Stephanie Bice (R-OK) released the following statement. "As a Member of Congress, I take my oath to uphold the Constitution seriously and I find it highly concerning that this bill contains language that was recently struck down as unconstitutional by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals," Rep. Bice said. "This legislation would not improve public safety, prevent these trag  more

WASHINGTON, June 10 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on June 9, 2022: Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives voted on H.R. 2377 and H.R. 7910, two legislative packages of gun control bills. Cole voted against both. "I regret that House Democrats chose to use an emotional and highly charged situation to advance legislation that infringes on the rights of law abiding, firearm owners. Unfortunately, both  more

WASHINGTON, June 10 -- Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: Following the murder of ten Black Americans by a white supremacist in New York; the murder of nineteen innocent elementary school students and two teachers in Texas by a teenaged gunman wielding a semi-automatic rifle; the murder of four people by a gunman at a medical facility in Oklahoma; and other mass shootings and gun deaths, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02) voted to pass the Extreme Risk Protection  more

WASHINGTON, June 10 -- Rep. Markwayne Mullin, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release and letter on June 9, 2022: Congressman Markwayne Mullin (OK-02) led nine of his Republican colleagues in sending a letter to the Department of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, urging the Secretary to abandon his proposed revisions to white collar overtime exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Further raising the minimum salary to qualify for overtime pay exemptions will do nothing but cripple small  more

WASHINGTON, June 10 -- Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on June 9, 2022: Yesterday, U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) introduced the Hon. Annie Caputo at an EPW nominations hearing today entitled Hearing on the Nominations of Annie Caputo and Bradley R. Crowell to be Commissioner of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Caputo, previous staff member of Inhofe and Commissioner for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission [NRC] from 2018 until 2021, holds tremendous knowled  more

WASHINGTON, June 10 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: The day after a drone attack on the US consulate in Iraq, likely committed by Iranian proxy forces, Senator James Lankford (R-OK) joined Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) along with fellow co-chairs of the Senate Abraham Accords Caucus, Senators Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) to introduce the Deterring Enemy Forces and Enabling National Defense (DEFEND) Act to develop a strategic approach among countri  more

WASHINGTON, June 10 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on June 9, 2022: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) joined Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and their colleagues to applaud the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations' unanimous passage of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom Reauthorization Act of 2022. The bill would reauthorize the independent US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) for two years, past its current expira  more