WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on Sept. 30, 2022: Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04), Vice Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee, released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives passed a short-term continuing resolution to fund the government through mid-December. Cole opposed the legislation. "I am disappointed that Democrats not only waited until the last minute to address expiring government funding, but t  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 -- Rep. Kevin Hern, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Representative Kevin Hern (OK-01) released the following statement after voting against HR 6833, the Continuing Resolution to fund the government through December 16th. "More spending is not the answer," said Rep. Hern. "We wouldn't be in this situation if we had a budget, but Congress has failed the American people in that for years. "My budget was the only one introduced in the House for the last two year  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, ranking Republican member of the House Rules Committee, issued the following remarks at a Sept. 30, 2022, hearing on the Fairness for 9/11 Families Act (H.R. 8987) and Affordable Insulin Now Act (H.R. 6833): * * * Today's rule, Madam Speaker, covers two items. The first I'll discuss is H.R. 8987, the Fairness for 9/11 Families Act. This bill would shift just under three billion dollars from the CARES Act Small Business loan fund to the United St  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on Sept. 30, 2022: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today celebrated House passage of his bill with Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA), the End Human Trafficking in Government Contracts Act of 2022, which will ensure the US government is not paying for or participating in human trafficking of vulnerable third-country workers through our contracts overseas, including those in defense and national security. The bill refe  more

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, Oct. 1 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on Sept. 30, 2022: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today celebrated the announcement by the National Park Service designating the Greenwood Historic District as part of the National Historic Registry. The Greenwood Historic District, also known as "Black Wall Street," sits in the northern part of Tulsa, Oklahoma. During the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Greenwood was decimated. Today, Tulsans are work  more

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, Oct. 1 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on Sept. 30, 2022: As inflation remains at a 40-year high, a bill to help address those costs in Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) construction by Senators James Lankford (R-OK), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), and Deb Fischer (R-NE), the CHIP-IN Improvement Act of 2022, has unanimously passed the Senate. The bill would simply allow the VA to use existing funds to offset inflation to build a 275,000-squar  more