WASHINGTON, March 14 -- Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Oklahoma, chair of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, issued the following news release: House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Chairman Frank Lucas (R-OK), Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Jay Obernolte (R-CA), and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Brandon Williams (R-NY) sent a letter to the Department of Energy (DOE) requesting a classified briefing on the origins of COVID-19. The letter was prompted following a recent report from the Wall Street Journal noti more PR

WASHINGTON, March 10 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Senators James Lankford (R-OK) and Jon Tester (D-MT) are introducing bipartisan legislation to set up servicemembers transitioning out of the military with careers as U.S. Border Patrol agents. The Senators' Veterans Border Patrol Training Act would utilize the Department of Defense's (DoD) SkillBridge program to connect transitioning servicemembers with jobs at U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP)--addressing critical border security workforce vacanci more PR

WASHINGTON, March 10 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Senators James Lankford (R-OK), John Thune (R-SD), Thom Tillis (R-NC), And Jerry Moran (R-KS) recently reintroduced the Reverse Entry for Migrant Offenders and Violence Expulsion (REMOVE) Act, legislation that would close a loophole that currently allows noncitizens including illegal immigrants convicted of kidnapping or sexual assault to remain in the United States. "The Biden Administration is apparently struggling to decide whether sex crimes are vi more PR

WASHINGTON, March 14 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, issued the following weekly column on March 13, 2023: * * * Uncovering a Cover Up The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has shown the world repeatedly that it cannot be trusted as a global partner. And given its deceptive actions taken at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic when COVID-19 first emerged in China, the CCP has also shown it cannot be trusted as a health partner as well. Although some have dismissed the idea of a lab leak causing the outbreak of COVID-19 as a conspiracy theory, it more PR