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October 6, 2013
Weekly Columns

Norman Transcript - Congressman Tom Cole

As I explained in numerous town hall meetings back in August, government shutdown is harmful to hard-working Americans, and using it as a strategy to repeal Obamacare is sure to fail, especially when its namesake is in the White House.


October 5, 2013

Washington, D.C. – Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) released the following statement after the House passed H.R. 3223, the Federal Employee Retroactive Pay Fairness Act. This legislation would ensure that federal workers receive lost pay for the duration of the government shutdown, regardless of furlough status.


October 3, 2013

Washington, D.C. – Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) joined with House colleagues to urge Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, Acting Homeland Security Secretary Rand Beers and OMB Director Sylvia Burwell to properly enforce the Pay Our Military Act. This letter was sent after hundreds of thousands of Department of Defense, U.S.


October 1, 2013
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) released the following statement after the Senate’s failure to engage in budget negotiations with the House in order to avert a government shutdown. Due to Senate inaction, many government agencies closed on October 1.

September 30, 2013
Weekly Columns

Just four months ago, Oklahomans proved their resilience by living through back-to-back tornadoes that claimed lives, destroyed entire neighborhoods and shook communities. While our state has come to expect the threat of tornadoes each year, it doesn’t make it any easier when it happens.

Issues:Science and Technology

September 30, 2013
News Stories

The Oklahoman - Chris Casteel

Congress missed its deadline early Tuesday to resolve partisan disputes over Obamacare and struggled into the early morning hours for a way out of a morass that forced the first government shutdown since 1996.


September 26, 2013

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), a senior member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and Congressman Tom Cole (R-OK-4) today congratulated University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University and Langston University for being awarded a grant of approximately $2.5 million through the U.S.

Issues:Education

September 26, 2013
News Stories

Associated Press - Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar

Republicans pulling on the budget thread can't neatly unravel President Barack Obama's health care law.


September 25, 2013
News Stories

The Oklahoman Editorial

As expected, the U.S. House of Representatives voted last week for a bill to defund the Affordable Care Act. The vote was mostly symbolic, as it stands zero chance of passage in the Democratic-controlled Senate and the president would never agree to such a plan anyway.


September 23, 2013

Norman, OK – Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) released the following statement after Cantor Fitzgerald, BGC Partners, Inc.