WASHINGTON, April 28 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on April 27, 2023: Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04), Vice Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, was inducted into the National Service Hall of Fame by Voices for National Service yesterday evening for his longstanding support of AmeriCorps and Americorps Seniors. "I am greatly honored to be inducted into the National Service Hall of Fame by Voices for National Service," said Cole. "From helping disadvantaged youth, responding to natural disasters, impro more PR

WASHINGTON, April 28 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on April 27, 2023: Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) today reintroduced the Protect American Election Administration Act. If enacted, this legislation would block the private takeover of government election administration, protect individual states' voting laws, prevent private funding for ballot harvesting or curing and prevent the use of election infrastructure to conduct ideologically motivated voter outreach campaigns. "When Americans go to the ballot box, the more PR

WASHINGTON, April 28 -- Rep. Kevin Hern, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on April 27, 2023: Republican Study Committee Chairman Kevin Hern (OK-01) released the following statement after the House of Representatives passed the Limit, Save, Grow Act. "We could not have gotten to this victory today without the hard-working determination of my colleagues on the Republican Study Committee," said Chairman Hern. "Our membership has taken the debt limit discussion seriously since the very first week of this Congress. Over the last sever more PR

WASHINGTON, April 28 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release and letter: Senators James Lankford (R-OK), Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-KS), and Thom Tillis (R-NC), along with 15 Republican Senators, sent a letter to the Biden Administration's Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Sandra Thompson. This letter expressed the Senators' outrage at Thompson's proposal to penalize Americans who have managed their money responsibly in order to subsidize high-risk borrowers with low credit. Proposals like these set a da more PR

WASHINGTON, April 28 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on April 27, 2023: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) responds to announcement from Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Department of State Secretary Antony Blinken on the Administration's plan to prepare for the end of Title 42: "After years of denial, last week, DHS admitted that the immigration system is broken. We are finally seeing a proposal from the Biden Administration to stop the massive flow of migrants across our more PR

WASHINGTON, April 28 -- Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Oklahoma, chair of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, issued the following news release: House Science Committee Members introduced two bipartisan bills to further strengthen and secure two of the Department of Energy's (DOE) most important interagency research partnerships. DOE is a global leader in energy technology development and science innovation with a wide range of assets, including 17 world-class national laboratories and 28 scientific user facilities. By partnering together more PR