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2022-01-11

U.S. Congressional Tipoffs Involving Oklahoma Newsletter for 2022-01-12 ( 4 items )

Oklahoma: Congressional

Sen. Lankford Challenges Burdensome Regulations on Hydropower (10)

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on Jan. 11, 2022: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) participated in a Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing today focused on hydropower, which Oklahoma has 10 hydropower facilities. Lankford focused on the challenges with permitting and the relicensing process. Lankford noted that it takes longer to relicense hydropower facilities than to relicense a nuclear power plant. Lankford questioned Mr. Malcolm Woolf, President and CEO of the Natio more PR

Sen. Lankford, Colleagues Want to Sanction China for Interfering With Investigation Into COVID Origins (10)

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on Jan. 11, 2022: Senator James Lankford (R-OK), along with Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL), Tim Scott (R-SC), John Cornyn (R-TX), Rick Scott (R-FL), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Roger Marshall (R-KS), Steve Daines (R-MT), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Ben Sasse (R-NE), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Mike Braun (R-IN), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), and John Kennedy (R-LA) introduced the Coronavirus Origin Validation, Investigation, and Det more PR

Sens. Lankford, Ernst Want to Put a Stop to Human Trafficking (10)

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on Jan. 11, 2022: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today was joined by Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) to introduce the End Human Trafficking in Government Contracts Act of 2021 to ensure the US government is not funding or participating in human trafficking of vulnerable third-country workers through our contracts overseas, including those in defense and national security. The bill terminates contracts found to be involved in human trafficking and importantly con more PR

Sens. Reed, Inhofe Comment on Balfour Beatty Communities Guilty Plea in Military Housing Fraud Case (10)

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, chairman, and Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, ranking member, of the Senate Armed Services Committee, issued the following joint statement on Jan. 11, 2022: * * * U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Jim Inhofe (R-OK), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, today released the following statement after the Department of Justice announced that Balfour Beatty Communities LLC pled guilty to one count of major fraud against the United States government for actions in wh more PR