Washington, D.C., is not known as a beacon of honesty and candor. So it's almost shocking to see the House pass a budget bill as thoroughly straightforward and grounded in reality as the Sequester Replacement Reconciliation Act.Just like the budget...
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Representative Tom Cole
Representing the 4th Congressional District of Oklahoma
Recently in Weekly Column
Today's parents face a prospect rare in American history: the possibility that our children and grandchildren will inherit an America with less opportunity and prosperity than previous generations enjoyed. Integral to the American Dream is the assumption that each generation...
The Medicare and Social Security Trustees just released their annual reports, and the findings are predictably sobering. According to the latest calculations, Medicare will go bankrupt in 2024. Social Security will run out of money in 2033 -- three years...
By any measure, the U.S. tax code is broken.Statistics compiled by the nonpartisan Tax Foundation read like an indictment of a tax system that is too long, too complicated and deeply flawed. Americans spend more than 7 billion hours each...
To hear the media tell it, congressional Republicans have no solutions for health care reform beyond repealing Obamacare. However, House Republicans have not only proposed but have passed numerous plans to make health care more affordable and accessible -- without...
Excessive government spending has become so commonplace, it rarely makes headlines. Yet every so often a government spending scandal comes along that reminds us all just how careless and irresponsible some federal agencies are with taxpayer money. New revelations about...
The Supreme Court is still deliberating the constitutionality of President Obama's health care law, but the court of public opinion has already returned its verdict. Surveys show that a majority of Americans believe the law's individual mandate provision, which would...
It's the most predictable economic crisis in history. Driven by four consecutive years of trillion-dollar-plus deficits, the nation's publicly held debt is projected to reach 73 percent of the economy this year. Funding for Medicare, Social Security and portions of...
Throughout the months of debate and public protest leading up to the 2010 passage of President Obama's health care bill, the White House repeatedly attempted to assure the American people that the government health care takeover wouldn't be all that...
I was fortunate to get to meet recently with members of the Norman Chamber of Commerce during their annual trip to Washington. The Capitol's commonsense quotient automatically jumped a few points with so many Oklahomans on the premises, but that's...