News Stories
The Hill - Erik Wasson
Budget conference negotiator Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) on Friday warned that unless the leaders of the panel start putting together proposals soon, members will start “freelancing” their own.
Ada News
The Oklahoman - Chris Casteel
Since first taking office in 2009, President Barack Obama has promised American Indians that his administration would listen to them.
The Hill - Erik Wasson
There was no sign of progress toward a congressional budget deal as the new House-Senate budget conference met for the second time on Wednesday.
The Oklahoman - Editorial Board
Having worked in the trenches for decades, U.S. Rep. Tom Cole, R-Moore, is one of Oklahoma's most astute political observers. When he talks, Republicans should listen.
Tulsa World - Wayne Greene
The American people are headed into a presidential election evenly divided between two sharply differentiated parties.
Big-time political donors are paying millions so their messages can drown out the opposition.
Washington at times seems unable to do anything regardless of who is in office.
The Journal Record - Journal Record Staff
Ripples from the federal government shutdown continued to spread across Oklahoma this week, with effects ranging from canceled airplane sales to home loan approval delays to court stays.
The Oklahoman - Chris Casteel
Congress missed its deadline early Tuesday to resolve partisan disputes over Obamacare and struggled into the early morning hours for a way out of a morass that forced the first government shutdown since 1996.
Associated Press - Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
Republicans pulling on the budget thread can't neatly unravel President Barack Obama's health care law.
The Oklahoman Editorial
As expected, the U.S. House of Representatives voted last week for a bill to defund the Affordable Care Act. The vote was mostly symbolic, as it stands zero chance of passage in the Democratic-controlled Senate and the president would never agree to such a plan anyway.