Press Releases

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.

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.

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.

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.