Media
Latest News
May 22, 2017
For nearly eight years Republicans have made repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, one of the central tenets of their campaign. President Trump also made repealing the ACA central to his campaign. During that time, Democrats lost over 900 state legislative seats, 12 governors, 69 U.S. House seats, 13 senate seats and the White House. The recent passage of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) was the first step in making good on that promise.
Issues:Healthcare
May 15, 2017
President Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey has predictably brought howls of protest from leading Democrats in Congress.
May 9, 2017
In your editorial “Not Draining the Swamp” (May 3) you suggest that the $2 billion increase in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was a political victory for the Democrats. While I’m pleased that we had strong bipartisan support for our bill, to label it a Democratic victory is simply not accurate.
Issues:Healthcare
May 8, 2017
In what has become an all too familiar exercise, last week Congress passed a Consolidated Appropriations bill, sometimes known as an Omnibus, at the 11th hour thereby narrowly averting a government shutdown. This legislation extended funding for the remainder of the 2017 Fiscal Year. It is work that should have, and could have, been completed last December.
May 4, 2017
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 1628, the American Health Care Act (AHCA), by a vote of 217-213.
"It's painfully obvious that the Affordable Care Act is not working," said Cole. "Premiums have risen through the roof, patient choices have dwindled, and taxes and penalties have increased dramatically.
Issues:Healthcare
May 3, 2017
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) released the following statement after the House passed H.R. 244, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017.
May 3, 2017
Washington, D.C. - Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) recently filmed an episode of his television and web show, Cole on Congress for May 2017. This month's program featured an interview with Congressman John Moolenaar, who represents the Fourth District of Michigan. Elected in 2014, Congressman Moolenaar brings an extensive background of public service in the state legislature of Michigan and as a leader in the private sector.
May 1, 2017
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) released the following statement after the House Appropriations Committee released the details for the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017 (Senate Amendment to H.R. 244).
May 1, 2017
In 1945, following the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II, the Korean peninsula was divided on the 38th parallel with the southern portion occupied by the United States and the northern potion occupied by the Soviet Union. The arrangement was intended to be temporary until a reunification could be negotiated.
April 24, 2017
This past week marked the twenty second anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. That day is still fresh in my memory. At the time, it was and still remains the largest and most deadly act of domestic terror the United States had ever suffered. I, like so many other Americans, wondered how could something so horrible, so unthinkable occur in America's heartland? Sadly, it wasn't the last time that America witnessed terror on our soil.
When the Alfred P.