WASHINGTON, June 16 -- Rep. Kevin Hern, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on June 15, 2022: Representative Kevin Hern (OK-01) blasted Democrats for wasting time with theatrics and partisan games during a Ways and Means Committee hearing today. During the hearing, Democrats pushed a new entitlement program, while Rep. Hern argued against creating a new programs when there are currently 92 separate programs for low-income Americans, more than 30 of which are accessible and beneficial  more

WASHINGTON, June 15 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, ranking Republican member of the House Rules Committee, issued the following remarks on June 13, 2022, at a hearing on the Recovering America's Wildlife Act (H.R. 2773), Federal Reserve Racial and Economic Equity Act (H.R 2543) and Meat and Poultry Special Investigator Act (H.R. 7606): * * * Today's hearing covers three items. The first I'll discuss is H.R. 2773, the Recovering America's Wildlife Act of 2022. This bill provides grant funding fo  more

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, issued the following statement on June 15, 2022: * * * Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) released the following statement after the U.S. Federal Reserve announced today it is increasing the federal interest rate range by 0.75 percent. This is the largest interest rate increase since 1994. "The Federal Reserve's attempt to cool the nation's out-of-control, 40-year high inflation is unfortunately probably several months too late. "Moreover, the fact  more

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release and letter on June 15, 2022: Senator James Lankford (R-OK), a member of the Senate Finance Committee with jurisdiction over the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), today sent a letter to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan to encourage their ongoing investigation into the practices of drug-pricing middlemen known as Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs), whose price-hike gimmicks lead t  more

WASHINGTON, June 15 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) introduced the Strengthening Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems Operations (C-UAS) Partnerships Act, a bill to authorize the Secretary of Defense to bolster our work with our allies and increase training capacity in counter-unmanned aerial systems (C-UAS) with partners like Israel who also lead in this area. These efforts include ongoing preparedness training and development o  more

WASHINGTON, June 15 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on June 14, 2022: Senators James Lankford (R-OK), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), John Barrasso (R-WY), and Steve Daines (R-MT) today introduced legislation to provide relief and protections for middle class savings that still face federal taxes despite significantly diminished value imposed by historic rates of inflation. The Middle-Class Savings and Investment Act would help lower- and middle-income Americans, th  more

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on June 15, 2022: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today supported a budget resolution to force Congress to actually pay attention to the rising federal debt and deficit that is attributing to our nation's $30 trillion debt and 8.6 percent inflation. The motion failed by a vote of 29 to 67. "Congress needs to pay attention to our federal debt, deficit, and overspending. The reason we face 8.6 percent inflati  more

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) joined Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-KS), Congressman Mike Garcia (R-CA), and their colleagues to introduce the Safe Schools Act, which would allow schools to use unspent COVID relief dollars allocated through the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund for security measures, including locks, panic buttons, individual room security systems, video surve  more

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release and letter on June 15, 2022: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) joined Senator John Thune (R-SD)and 24 of their Republican colleagues today to introduce the Political Bias in Algorithm Sorting (BIAS) Emails Act. The straight-forward bill makes it illegal for Big Tech to automatically send emails to spam based upon a political preference and requires those companies publically disclose spam tactics that censor c  more