WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release and letter: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) along with Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-ID), and US House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX) led Congressional Republicans in a bicameral letter urging Assistant Treasury Secretary for Tax Policy Lily Batchelder and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Charles Rettig to extend the COVID-19 related penalty dea  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, ranking Republican member of the House Rules Committee, issued the following remarks on Sept. 27, 2022, at a hearing on the Mental Health Matters Act (H.R. 7780), Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act (H.R 3843), and PAVA Program Inclusion Act(S. 3969): * * * Today's hearing covers three items. The first I'll discuss, S. 3969, would make the Northern Mariana Islands and the American Indian Consortium eligible for payments for voting accessibilit  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 -- Rep. Markwayne Mullin, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Congressman Markwayne Mullin (R-OK-02) and Congressman Tom O'Halleran (D-AZ-01) introduced the E-Prescribing Parity for Controlled Substances Act (EPCS Act 2.0) modernize prescription writing to form more stringent barriers to accessing Schedule II drugs, like opioids, reducing the number of overdose deaths, and increasing savings for hospitals and taxpayers. "These substances are controlled for a rea  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 -- Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Oklahoma, ranking Republican member of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, issued the following news release: Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX), Ranking Member Frank Lucas (R-OK), Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics Chairman Don Beyer (D-VA), and Ranking Member Brian Babin (R-TX) sent a letter to Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regarding the FCC's potential consideration of new regul  more