WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, ranking Republican member of the House Rules Committee, issued the following remarks on Sept. 20, 2022, at a hearing on the Presidential Election Reform Act (H.R. 8873): * * * Today's hearing covers a single item, H.R. 8873, the Presidential Election Reform Act. This is the Majority's proposal to reform the Electoral Count Act, which governs our joint session to count electoral votes for President and Vice President of the United States. Afte  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, issued the following weekly column on Sept. 19, 2022: * * * American Energy is Global Security Since taking office, President Joe Biden has significantly slowed down energy production in the United States to pursue his unreliable and disastrous "Green New Deal." In turn, our country and our allies have been forced to rely on other nations around the globe for energy and gasoline, even those that do not have our best interests in mind. Not onl  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release on Sept. 20, 2022: U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury (N.M.-01), a member of the Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States,asked Tribal witnesses to help Congress identify a path forward to defend Tribal sovereignty in light of the Supreme Court's Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta decision. During the oversight hearing, Rep. Stansbury and the Subcommittee heard witness testimony from three  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 -- Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release and letter on Sept. 19, 2022: U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) sent a letter today urging the National Labor Relations Board to abandon efforts to implement a rule that, if finalized, could deeply harm thousands of Oklahoma small businesses. Under the Obama Administration, a similar rule cost the franchise sector $33.3 billion per year, resulting in more than 375,000 lost job opportunities, and almost doub  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 -- Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, gave an opening statement at a committee hearing to receive testimony on United States Nuclear Strategy and Policy. Witnesses include: the Honorable Madelyn Creedon, Research Professor at George Washington University in the Elliott School of International Affairs; the Honorable Rose Gottemoeller, Steven C. Hazy Lectu  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 -- Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, questions witnesses today at a committee hearing to receive testimony on United States Nuclear Strategy and Policy. Witnesses include: the Honorable Madelyn Creedon, Research Professor at George Washington University in the Elliott School of International Affairs; the Honorable Rose Gottemoeller, Steven C. Hazy Lectu  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release and letter: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) joined Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, to lead Finance Committee Republicans in a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting the agency monitor the managing trustee's flagrant disregard for statutory deadlines. Required by law, the Medicare and Social Security trustees reports are to be issued no late  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Following nationwide scandals about teachers' unions spying on parents, going on strike, and fighting to keep schools closed, Senator James Lankford (R-OK) joined Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) to introduce legislation to end the National Education Association (NEA)'s federal charter. Representatives Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI) and Jim Banks (R-IN) introduced a version of this bil  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on Sept. 19, 2022 and letter: Senators James Lankford (R-OK) and John Cornyn (R-TX), along with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and more than 30 other colleagues, today sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding that U.S. Attorney David Weiss be extended special counsel protections and authorities to conduct the investigation into Hunter Biden. "There is no way of knowing  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), created by the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998, is a bipartisan commission that monitors and reports on religious freedom internationally. The commission's authorization is currently set to expire September 30, 2022. Less than two weeks before USCIRF's authorization expires, the US House of Representatives passed Senat  more