News Stories
The Hill - Cristina Marcos
Reps. John Delaney (D-Md.) and Tom Cole (R-Okla.) have introduced a bill to establish a commission to study how Social Security can achieve fiscal solvency.
The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that Social Security will be unable to pay full benefits by 2031.
NewsOK - Chris Casteel
Oklahoma Reps. Tom Cole, R-Moore, and Jim Bridenstine, R-Tulsa, released statements on Monday critical of the Obama administration’s decision to exchange five former Taliban leaders who were being held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay for U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.
NewsOK - Chris Casteel
President Barack Obama announced Tuesday that the United States would keep nearly 10,000 troops in Afghanistan through 2016.
Duncan Banner - Derrick Miller
The threat of rain didn’t dampen the spirits of those attending the Stephens County Honor Guard’s remembrance service Monday.
Norman Transcript - Joy Hampton
One year after an EF-5 tornado devastated a core area of Moore that included the Moore Medical Center, the community gathered on the site of the former hospital to reflect and remember those who were lost.
Federal News Radio - Jack Moore
A proposed amendment to the House version of the annual bill setting policy for the Defense Department would preemptively protect DoD employees paid through working-capital funds from potential furloughs.
Pauls Valley Daily Democrat - Barry Porterfield
A few dozen of Pauls Valley’s band members are about to get very patriotic with a special trip that hits the road in just a few days.
Their destination is the nation’s capital in Washington, D.C.
Miami Herald - Kristi Eaton
Political leaders, Native American tribal members, scholars and community members gathered Friday to dedicate a statue of a renowned Chickasaw storyteller who broke stereotypes over her six-decade career.
Defense News - John T. Bennett
Widespread opposition has yet to form around any single Pentagon proposal to cut a specific weapon system, indicating most could be implemented despite lawmakers’ protestations on behalf of parochial interests.
ABC - Devin Dwyer
Here are two things you don’t see every day at the White House: a bill signing, and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., standing beside President Obama with a big smile.