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U.S. Congressional Tipoffs Involving Oklahoma Newsletter for Wednesday July 12, 2023 ( 2 items )  

Lankford Calls for Updating Significantly Outdated Federal Retirement Services
WASHINGTON, July 12 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on July 11, 2023, and a letter: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today sent a letter to the Director of the Office of Personnel Management Kiran Ahuja on the need to modernize the decades-old retirees' system that is causing backlogs and delays in processing retirement applications. Lankford asked several questions of the Director on why responses to retirees can involve wait times of more than a year, which   more

Rep. Cole Column: Commitments Kept
WASHINGTON, July 12 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, issued the following weekly column: One-party Democratic rule in Washington notably led to several unprecedented crises in our country and around the globe. However, despite the challenges of working with a Democrat Senate and president, House Republicans have kept our commitments made to the American people these past six months upon taking back the House majority. One of House Republicans' top priorities for the new Congress was ending Democr  more