Press Releases
WASHINGTON - Yesterday Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) announced that funding has been included in the FY08 Department of Defense Appropriations Conference Report for projects that will benefit the 4th District.
"It is vital to the success of our military that they have the resources they need to serve and protect America," Congressman Cole said. "I am proud that this funding will also help fund critical defense and military-related projects in Oklahoma."
Cole secured the following projects in the 2008 defense funding bill:
WASHINGTON - Yesterday Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) made the following statement after the House Majority approved an expensive appropriations bill with millions of dollars of unrelated pork-barrel spending requests. In a highly unusual move, the House leadership combined a measure to support our nation's troops and veterans with a highly contentious - and pork laden - measure to fund the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education.
WASHINGTON - Today Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) released the following statement in an effort to encourage fire prevention and safety grant seekers to submit their applications before the November 30th deadline.
WASHINGTON - Today Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) released the following statement after providing a briefing of his recent experiences in Iraq to White House officials and Lieutenant General Doug Lute, the Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan.
WASHINGTON - Today Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) released the following statement after receiving word that Delta Airlines has announced they will begin offering twice daily flights between Lawton, Okla. and Atlanta, Ga., starting March 2008.
WASHINGTON - Today the House of Representatives passed Congressman Tom Cole's (OK-4) bill to authorize $900,000 to administer a water feasibility study in order to find future water sources for Norman, Midwest City and Del City, Oklahoma.
WASHINGTON D.C. -- U.S. Congressman Tom Cole (OK-4) bid farewell recently to summer intern Rayne Austin. Austin was chosen by Cole to intern in the Lawton, Oklahoma district office.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Congressman Tom Cole (OK-4) released the following statement today in response to the President's address to the nation regarding progress in Iraq.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Congressman Tom Cole (OK-4) released the following statement today in response to an ad placed in today's New York Times by MoveOn.org.
"It is widely known that MoveOn.org has attempted to intimidate Members of Congress into adopting a withdrawal timetable that experts believe would cause more death and destruction. The course they recommend would result in the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis. While that is their political prerogative, they have gone too far in their recent character attacks against General David Petraeus."
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Congressman Tom Cole (OK-4) issued the following statement today after General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker delivered their Iraq progress reports to Congress.