WASHINGTON, March 23 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on March 22, 2023: Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04), Vice Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee and member of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, released the following statement after attending a bipartisan Congressional delegation trip to the Pacific region. Led by Defense Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Ken Calvert (CA-41), Cole joined Reps. Steve Womack (AR-03), Dave Joyce (OH-14), Chris Stewart (UT-02), Ed Case (HI-01) and Mike Garcia (CA- more PR

WASHINGTON, March 23 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on March 22, 2023: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today questioned Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra in a Senate Finance Committee hearing to discuss President Biden's fiscal year 2024 budget proposal as it relates to HHS. Lankford pointedly asked Becerra what is being done about pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) as they continue to push to keep their status as middlemen in the drug pricing scheme, which is forcing high more PR

WASHINGTON, March 23 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on March 22, 2023, and letter: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today joined Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) and five of their Republican colleagues in sending a letter to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) demanding answers on the discrepancies found within BLM reports for approved Applications for Permits to Drill and requesting further information on current permitting data. In the letter to BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning, the Senators also stress the more PR

WASHINGTON, March 23 -- Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) led six of his Republican colleagues in sending a letter to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) demanding answers on the discrepancies found within BLM reports for approved Applications for Permits to Drill and requesting further information on current permitting data. In the letter to BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning, Mullin also stresses the importance of domestic energy production to meet increasing g more PR

WASHINGTON, March 23 -- Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), a member of Cherokee Nation, introduced the Tribal Firearm Access Act to allow Tribal members to lawfully purchase firearms using their Tribal government-issued identification (ID). Under current law, firearms may be purchased with a foreign government passport, yet Native American citizens are prohibited from using an ID issued by a tribal government, to lawfully exercise their Second Amendment rights. "Tribal  more PR