Foreign Affairs
May 9, 2023
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for quite some time has used malign economic coercion tactics to intimidate its neighbors in the Indo-Pacific region and manipulate them to surrender to various types of political, economic and other demands.
Issues:Foreign Affairs
May 1, 2023
Last week, the House of Representatives passed two critical pieces of legislation.
April 17, 2023
The late, great Democratic President Harry S. Truman once famously placed a sign on his desk which proclaimed, “The Buck Stops Here.” Surely, “Give ‘em Hell Harry” is rolling in his grave on the release of the Biden Administration’s reports on its disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in the summer of 2021.
March 22, 2023
Washington, D.C. – 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.
Issues:Foreign Affairs
March 13, 2023
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.
Issues:Foreign AffairsHealthcare
March 10, 2023
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) released the following statement following House passage of S. 619, the COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023, which would require the Director of National Intelligence to declassify information relating to links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origin of COVID-19 within 90 days.
Issues:Foreign AffairsHealthcare
February 23, 2023
Washington, D.C. – Representatives Tom Cole, Chairman of the House Rules Committee (R-OK), released the following statement announcing their introduction of H.R. 1135, the Countering Economic Coercion Act of 2023.
Issues:Foreign Affairs
February 17, 2023
The Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) increasingly aggressive and competitive behavior toward our nation is of great concern. It certainly took another bold step earlier this month as a spy aircraft was sent across our country. Unfortunately, during this national security challenge, the Biden Administration once again failed to meet the task in the face of this overt aggression.
January 23, 2023
For far too long, American leaders have accepted the erosion of our advantage over the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) both economically and militarily.
October 11, 2022
This year has unquestionably brought much change to the world in which we live. Not only are Americans struggling to make ends meet here at home due to the worst inflation in 40 years, but on the other side of the globe, democratic nations are facing unprovoked aggression and attacks.
Issues:Foreign Affairs