WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, issued the following statement: * * * Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) issued the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 5305. This measure includes a continuing resolution to fund the government at current (fiscal year 2021) levels through December 3, 2021, with additional items attached, including a provision that would suspend the debt limit until the end of 2022. Cole voted against the legislation. "As a member of the House Appropriations Committee, I certain more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 -- Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on Sept. 22, 2021: Congressman Frank Lucas (OK-03) applauded the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) announcement of $1 million in funding to Oklahoma State University (OSU) to advance the commercialization of enhanced geothermal systems (EGS)- manmade reservoirs that produce clean, renewable energy. EGS development could expand U.S. geothermal energy capabilities and extend the use of geothermal energy into new geographic areas across the country. "Enhanced more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 -- Rep. Markwayne Mullin, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Congressman Markwayne Mullin (OK-02) released the following statement after voting against a continuing resolution (CR), which includes a suspension of the country's debt limit through December 16, 2022. "This is absolutely reckless," Mullin said. "Suspending the debt limit enables Pelosi Democrats to continue their out-of-control spending spree and force their socialist agenda on the American people, all without a plan to pay for it. Our country c more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 -- Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), senior member of the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, questioned witnesses this morning at an EPW hearing about the importance of promoting a circular economy. Witnesses included: Secretary Elizabeth Biser, North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality; Robert Elias, Director of Policy and Government Affairs for World Wildlife Fund; Billy Johnson, Chief Lobbyist for Institute of Scrap Recycling Industr more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on Sept. 22, 2021: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today participated in a Senate Finance Committee hearing to consider the nominations of Christi Grimm to be Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Neil MacBride to be General Counsel for the Department of the Treasury. During his questioning Lankford defended Americans' rights to conscience protections and rights to have private information be kept private by the govern more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 -- Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on Sept. 22, 2021: Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Senator Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and Ranking Member Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) today announced they have filed S. 2792, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 (NDAA). "Today we are one step closer to enacting the annual National Defense Authorization Act - something Congress has done every year for the last 60 years in a row," said Senator Inhofe. "This bill is the most impor more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Senators James Lankford (R-OK), Josh Hawley (R-MO), Steve Daines (R-MT) along with Reps. Lisa McClain (R-MI) and Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO), led a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra and NIH Director Francis Collins asking for a complete investigation into the University of Pittsburgh's abortion procedures and research. Recent reports from the NIH show the university may have violated federal law by altering abortion  more PR