WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, ranking Republican member of the House Rules Committee, issued the following remarks at a Jan. 13, 2022, hearing on the Senate amendment to the NASA Enhanced Use Leasing Extension Act (H.R. 5746): * * * We're here today on a bill that is ostensibly the Senate Amendment to H.R. 5746, the NASA Enhanced Use Leasing Extension Act of 2021. However, at the last minute the Majority completely changed this bill, inserting into it the text of S. 2747, the Freedom to Vote Act, along with the text of H. more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 -- Rep. Stephanie Bice, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Democrats are once again forcing a vote to nationalize our country's election laws by nefarious means - hijacking a NASA bill meant to extend a leasing program. They're calling it the "Freedom to Vote Act," but instead of protecting Americans' voting rights, it denigrates them. Oklahoma has by far one of the most safe and secure election processes in the nation; more states should follow our lead. However, this law will remove voting from state oversigh more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on Jan. 13, 2022: Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04), Congresswoman Dina Titus (NV-01), Congressman Markwayne Mullin (OK-02), Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) and Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) today introduced the bipartisan, bicameral Medical Student Education Authorization Act, to authorize the Medical Student Education (MSE) Program for five years. The MSE Program provides grants to public institutions of higher education to expand or support graduate education for physic more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) released the following statement after voting against the House Amendment to the Senate Amendment to H.R. 5746, the text of which was released with an hour's notice before its consideration in the House Rules Committee last night. "The ability to vote is one of the most precious rights American citizens have. But rather than working with Republicans on solutions to preserve this right and protect the integrity of our elections, De more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 -- Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on Jan. 13, 2022: Congressman Frank Lucas (OK-03), Ranking Member of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, today criticized House Democratic leadership for stripping bipartisan NASA policy from H.R. 5746 and replacing it with legislation to attempt to seize control of elections from states. "The majority has taken a practical, bipartisan bill and gutted it, inserting 735 pages of unrelated legislation and forcing the House to vote on it barely more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 -- Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Oklahoma, ranking Republican member of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, issued the following news release on Jan. 13, 2022: House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Ranking Member Frank Lucas was joined by Space & Aeronautics Subcommittee Ranking Member Brian Babin and Rep. Young Kim in criticizing House Democratic leadership for stripping bipartisan NASA policy from H.R. 5746 and replacing it with legislation to attempt to seize control of elections from states. "The majority more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 -- Rep. Markwayne Mullin, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Congressman Markwayne Mullin (OK-02) released the following statement after voting no on H.R. 5746, the NASA Enhanced Use Leasing Extension Act of 2021, which Democrats have used as a shell to pass their legislation to federalize elections. "Democrats are trying to rewrite the rules of our democracy because that's the only way for them to ram through their socialist agenda," said Mullin. "At the eleventh hour, Speaker Pelosi used an unrelated NASA bil more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 -- Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Oklahoma, ranking Republican member of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, issued the following news release on Jan. 13, 2022: House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX), House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Lead Republican Frank Lucas (R-OK), and House Committee on Energy and Commerce Lead Republican Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) sent a letter to President Biden on the administration's lack of response to requests from Congress on COVID-19. "We more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 -- Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, issued the following statement on Jan. 13, 2022: * * * U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, today released the following statement after a bill imposing critical sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project failed to meet the 60-vote threshold needed to advance: "The Senate had another chance to get it right on Nord Stream 2, but Democrats let this opportunity to stand up to Putin pass us by. For years, there has been wide bipartisa more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 -- Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) joined Rep. Tom Cole (OK-04) along with Reps. Markwayne Mullin (OK-02) and Dina Titus (NV-01) and Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) to introduce the bipartisan, bicameral Medical Student Education Authorization Act, to authorize the Medical Student Education (MSE) Program for five years. The MSE Program provides grants to public institutions of higher education to expand or support graduate education for physicians in states with  more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 -- Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on Jan. 13, 2022: U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, today questioned nominees for top Pentagon policy positions at a committee hearing about the United States' nuclear declaratory policy, resources to support national security objectives in Africa and the crisis at the southwest border. Nominees included: Celeste Wallender to be Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Affairs, Melissa Dalton more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 -- Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, issued the following joint statement with Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Alabama: * * * U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, today released the following statement following reports that the Biden administration is debating cutting critical nuclear weapons programs approved under the last administration and again in this year's National Defense Authorization A more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following statement on Jan. 13, 2022: * * * Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today issued a statement after the Supreme Court issued a decision following an emergency hearing on whether a stay on vaccine mandates impacting private businesses should remain in place: "This is a big day for every Oklahoman and American who has lived in fear of having to choose between their healthdecisions or keeping their job. Today's ruling states what every Oklahoman has known for months--Presid more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following statement on Jan. 13, 2022: * * * Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today issued a statement after the Senate voted on legislation to impose US sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Nord Stream 2 is a natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany running through the Baltic Sea. Earlier this year, Biden waived sanctions on those involved in the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which threatens the energy security of the US and our European allies. By contrast,  more PR