WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 -- Rep. Stephanie Bice, R-Oklahoma, issued the following statement: * * * Congresswoman Stephanie Bice (OK-05) released the following statement after President Biden announced the cancellation of certain federal student loan debt. "There is no way to 'forgive' debt. This handout by the Biden Administration, which carries a $300 billion dollar price tag, shifts the burden away from personal responsibility and onto the taxpayers at large, punishing them for the decisions of others. "This shortsighted decision will exacerba more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, issued the following weekly column on Aug. 29, 2022: * * * Biden's Student Loan Bailout Last week, President Joe Biden unveiled a plan to unilaterally erase a wide swath of certain federal student loan debts. Not only is such action completely unfair to millions of Americans who do not have student loans or already paid them off, but it will also add hundreds of billions of dollars more to the national debt. This move will ultimately drive our country deeper into a recession in the days and m more PR

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, Aug. 30 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release and letter on Aug. 29, 2022: Senator James Lankford (R-OK), lead Republican of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Government Operations and Border Management, sent a letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas seeking clarification on the Department's recent decision to close four areas of the southern border wall near Yuma, Arizona, where Lankford visited in July 2022, after previously halti more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 -- Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release and letter: Top Republicans on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and Armed Services Committees urged President Joe Biden to re-establish Operation Warp Speed to develop new vaccines and medical products that can counter the ongoing COVID-19 and future pandemics. "Operation Warp Speed was a singular, history-making success - harnessing American innovation, bolstered by the support of the federal government, to bring effective COVID-19 vacc more PR