WASHINGTON, May 11 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, chairman of the House Rules Committee, issued the following remarks at a hearing on China's coercive economic tactics, on May 10, 2023: * * * Good afternoon. We are meeting today to conduct a hearing titled "Examining China's Coercive Economic Tactics." Today's hearing covers a topic that is of great importance to the United States. It is indisputable that the People's Republic of China has repeatedly used economic coercion to shape their polic  more

WASHINGTON, May 11 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release and letter: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) joined Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) and 13 other Senate Republican colleagues today to send a letter to President Biden requesting a full accounting of all federal funding used to implement Executive Order 14019 on "Promoting Access to Voting," which directs federal agencies to submit strategic plans to the White House describing how they will use taxpayer-funded res  more

WASHINGTON, May 11 -- Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on May 10, 2023: Congressman Frank Lucas (OK-03) joined his colleagues on both the House Financial Services Committee and House Agriculture Committee for a Joint Financial Services-Agriculture Subcommittee hearing on "The Future of Digital Assets: Measuring the Regulatory Gaps in the Digital Asset Markets". Lucas questioned Kraken's Chief Legal Officer Marco Santori about the implications of the U.S. falling  more

WASHINGTON, May 11 -- Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on May 10, 2023: U.S. Senators Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) introduced the 9-8-8 Lifeline Cybersecurity Responsibility Act to strengthen the cybersecurity protocols at the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, also known as the 988 Lifeline, in response to the day-long outage of the Lifeline which occurred in December 2022. "Increasing cybersecurity measures for the 988 Lifeline is imperati  more