WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 -- The House Agriculture Committee issued the following information for a virtual hearing entitled: "To Review the State of the Livestock Industry" at noon on Oct. 7, 2021: WITNESS LIST Panel 1: * The Honorable Chuck Grassley ( R ), United States Senator, Iowa Panel 2: * The Honorable Tom Vilsack, Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Panel 3: * Mr. Todd Wilkinson, Vice President, National Cattlemen's Beef Association, DeSmet SD * Mr. Francois Leger, Owner, FPL Food, on behalf of the North American Meat Institute, more PR

MOORE, Oklahoma, Oct. 6 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, issued the following statement: * * * Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) issued the following statement after it was announced that Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will retire at the end of 2021 after a 12-year tenure under three consecutive presidential administrations. Cole is the Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee that provides funding for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which includes the NIH. "It is with very  more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, issued the following column: A topic that has come up during both of the last couple weeks in Congress is the issue of adjusting the debt limit, which requires legislation signed by the president to either raise or suspend it. Although Democrats control both chambers of Congress and the White House and they have refused to work with Republicans on much of anything this year, they are claiming that Republicans will be the ones to blame if the United States defaults on its debt. While it is corre more PR

CHEYENNE, Oklahoma, Oct. 6 -- Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on Oct. 5, 2021: Congressman Frank Lucas (OK-03) joined his colleagues on the House Committee on Financial Services for a hearing with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler. In July, SEC Chairman Gensler asked SEC staff to develop a mandatory climate-risk disclosure rule, also known as an Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) disclosure. Lucas questioned Chairman Gensler on the Commission's ESG rule-making process,  more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 -- Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on Oct. 4, 2021: Last week, U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) joined Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and a bipartisan group of senators in sending a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra, urging him to establish an ambitious national goal to prevent Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, and to develop a plan to achieve this goal. The senators wrote, "Alzheimer's disease is a public health crisis that  more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 -- Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, today questioned four nominees for top civilian leadership roles at the Departments of the Army and Air Force Nominees included: Gabe Camarillo to be Under Secretary of the Army; Rachel Jacobson to be Assistant Secretary of the Army for Energy, Installations and Environment; Alex Wagner to be Assistant Secretary for the Air Force for Manpower and Reserve Affairs; and  more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 -- Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, last week led Republicans at two open hearings on the situation in Afghanistan and the path forward for counterterrorism. Inhofe has iterated that these hearings were just the beginning, and he hopes to have additional oversight hearings on Afghanistan in October. After detailed questioning of America's top defense officials and leading Afghanistan experts, Inhofe is  more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release Oct. 5, 2021: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today participated in a Senate Energy and Natural Resources hearing to examine and consider updates to the Mining Law of 1872. Lankford's questions focused on the ways Biden's policies on US domestic mineral development as well as ways the long US permitting process for mines, which can take up to 10 years, is deterring US investment in rare earth and critical minerals and encouraging dependence on China. To hel more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on Oct. 4, 2021: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) and Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) led a bipartisan group of senators in sending a letter to US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra, urging him to establish an ambitious national goal to prevent Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, and to develop a plan to achieve this goal. The senators wrote, "Alzheimer's disease is a public health crisis that is expanding, with more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) joined Senators Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Mark Warner (D-VA) to introduce legislation to prevent presidential abuse of "national security" tariffs by reinstating congressional authority over trade. The Bicameral Congressional Trade Authority Act would make any presidentially proposed tariffs or quotas applied for national security purposes (via Section 232 authority) subject to review and approval by Congress prior to taking effe more PR