WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on Jan. 25, 2023: Senator James Lankford (R-OK), lead Republican on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Government Operations and Border Management, today spoke on the importance of his recent congressional delegation tour of the southern border in El Paso, Texas, and Yuma, Arizona, to take an in-depth look at the issues facing our border law enforcement along the US-Mexico borde  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release and letter: Earlier this month, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) released a memorandum claiming that abortion drugs can be mailed into states that prohibit abortions--directly violating existing law. In response, Senator James Lankford (R-OK) sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland condemning the Biden Administration's willingness to jeopardize the health and safety of women to further the left  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release and letter: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) joined Senator John Hoeven (R-ND) to introduce the Focus on the Mission Act, which would stop the Department of Defense (DOD) from imposing a new environmental rule on federal contractors that would drive up costs for our national defense. Earlier this month, Lankford joined Hoeven and their colleagues in a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin regarding this pr  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on Jan. 25, 2023: Today Senator James Lankford (R-OK) joined Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-KS) reintroduced the Viral Gain-of-Function Research Moratorium Act, legislation to place a moratorium on all federal research grants involving risky gain-of-function research on potential pandemic pathogens. A new report from a federal watchdog agency concluded that the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) fai  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) joined Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) along with 45 other Senators, to introduce the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act, which would establish a permanent prohibition on federal funding for abortion, replacing the current annual funding restrictions with a single, government-wide standard. After more than 40 years of inconsistent and haph  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 -- Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), along with 46 other senators, introduced the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act. This legislation would establish a permanent prohibition on federal funding for abortion, replacing the current restrictions with a single, government-wide standard. "Taxpayer dollars should never be used to fund abortions. Period. This legislation will eliminate any uncertainty foun  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 -- Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Oklahoma, chair of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, issued the following news release and letter: House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Chairman Frank Lucas (R-OK) sent a follow-up letter to the Department of Energy (DOE), once again demanding answers about a $200 million grant awarded to a company with direct ties to communist Chinese leadership. Lucas questioned whether DOE has sufficient guardrails in place to prevent taxp  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release and letter: Following a letter from Senator James Lankford (R-OK) and Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee and 10 of their colleagues, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced it is delaying the effective date of the final rule to reclassify the northern long-eared bat from threatened to endangered under the Endangered Specie  more