Press Releases

Congressman Tom Cole (OK-4), Congressman Joaquin Castro (TX-20), and Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger (VA-7) introduced H.R. 4196 to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to make jobs in early childhood education eligible as community service under the Federal Work-Study Program.

Oklahoma City – Congressman Tom Cole (R-OK) joined leaders from OMRF today to announce two major federal grants totaling as much as $48 million to OMRF. The National Institutes of Health awarded the grants, which will fund research on autoimmune diseases and human exposure to anthrax.

Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) reacted to the shooting shootings that took place in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio.

Washington, D.C. – Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) will host town hall meetings in Norman, Chickasha, Pauls Valley, Duncan and Moore in the coming weeks. For constituents who are unable to attend one of the in-person meetings, Cole will also host a telephone town hall meeting on Tuesday, August 20.

Washington, D.C. – Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 3877, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2019.

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Martha McSally (R-Ariz.), U.S. Assistant House Speaker Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), and U.S. Representatives Don Young (R-Alaska), Tom Cole (R-Okla.) and Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) announced the introduction of the bipartisan, bicameral Native American Seeds Protection Act of 2019.

Washington, D.C. – Today, members in both chambers of Congress reintroduced the bipartisan Safeguard Tribal Objects of Patrimony (STOP) Act, a bill to prohibit the exporting of sacred Native American items and increase penalties for stealing and illegally trafficking tribal cultural patrimony.

Washington, D.C. – Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) issued the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 582, which would increase the federally-required minimum wage from $7.25 per hour to $15 per hour over five years. Cole opposed the legislation.