Press Releases

Washington, DC – Today, Oklahoma’s Congressional Delegation introduced a resolution in both the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate honoring Jim Thorpe, of the Sac and Fox Nation, and urging the International Olympic Committee to restore his 1912 Olympic records.

Washington, D.C. – House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) and more than 25 members of the House Energy Action Team (HEAT) slammed President Biden for pledging to shackle the United States to a new sweeping and unattainable Paris Agreement commitment that will destroy thousands of energy jobs and devastate American workers.

Washington, D.C. – Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives voted on H.R. 51, the Washington, D.C. Admission Act. Passed along party lines by a vote of 216-208, Cole opposed the legislation related to granting statehood to the District of Columbia.

Washington, D.C. – Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) released the following statement on the 26th anniversary of the bombing that occurred at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995.

Washington, D.C. – Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) signed a discharge petition filed yesterday by House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (LA-01), Congresswoman Ann Wagner (MO-02) and Congresswoman Kat Cammack (FL-03), calling for a vote on H.R. 619, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.

Washington, D.C. – Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) released the following statement after proposals were introduced by Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate that would add four justices to the bench on the Supreme Court.

Washington, D.C. – The bipartisan Congressional Native American Caucus recently established its leadership for the 117th Congress with Congressman Tom Cole (R-OK) and Representative Sharice Davids (D-KS) serving as Co-Chairs.

Washington, D.C. – Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04), a member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, released the following statement after President Joe Biden outlined his policy concerning Afghanistan and announced his plan to withdraw all remaining American troops by September 11, 2021.