Press Releases
July 18, 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.
Issues:Tribal Relations
July 18, 2019
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.
Issues:Economy & Small Business
July 16, 2019
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives voted on H. Res. 489, a resolution offered by Democrats in response to President Trump’s recent comments about four Democratic members of Congress.
July 12, 2019
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives voted on H.R. 2500, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2020.
July 10, 2019
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), senior member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) sent a letter to EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler in support of the of the Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Center in Ada, Oklahoma.
Issues:Science and Technology
July 10, 2019
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), James Lankford (R-Okla.) and U.S. Reps. Tom O’Halleran (D-Ariz.), Tom Cole (R-Okla.) and Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) today introduced the Repealing Existing Substandard Provisions Encouraging Conciliation with Tribes Act.
Issues:Tribal Relations
June 27, 2019
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives passed a supplemental appropriations bill providing emergency funding to manage the humanitarian crisis at the southern border.
Issues:Immigration
June 26, 2019
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives voted on H.R. 3401, a supplemental appropriations bill crafted by Democrats to deal with the humanitarian crisis at the southern border.
Issues:Immigration
June 25, 2019
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Reps. Tom Cole (OK-04) and Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA) introduced the Fallen Journalists Memorial Act of 2019, which would authorize the Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation to work to collect funds to establish a memorial in Washington, D.C.
June 21, 2019
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), Representative Markwayne Mullin (OK-02), and Representative Tom Cole (OK-04) made the following statements after Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer announced the newest Towing, Salvage and Rescue ship (T-ATS) would be named Cherokee Nation.