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February 4, 2013
Weekly Columns

In his second inaugural address, President Obama did not utter the word "debt" a single time. While the president had no hesitation discussing policies to increase spending, he remained virtually silent regarding the most important and urgent challenge currently threatening the nation's future.

Issues:Economy & Small Business

January 31, 2013

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) released the following statement after House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers announced his appointment as Vice Chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development.


January 28, 2013
Weekly Columns

Much of the recent coverage of 11th-hour legislative deals and partisan stalemates focuses on negotiations between House Republican leadership and the White House. Yet the most underreported factor in the habitual Washington gridlock of the past two years is the failure of the Democratic Senate to do its job.

Issues:Economy & Small Business

January 24, 2013

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) released the following statement after being appointed by Speaker John Boehner to the Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents.


January 23, 2013

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) released the following statement after House passage of H.R. 325–The No Budget, No Pay Act:

"The Senate's failure to pass a budget in nearly four years is disgraceful. House Republicans have voted repeatedly to cut spending, but progress in reducing the debt is impossible without cooperation from Senate Democrats.


January 22, 2013
Weekly Columns

President Obama spent the last press briefing of his first term lecturing Congress to "pay the bills they have already racked up." "They" is a curious choice of pronoun for a president who has accumulated more debt than any chief executive in history.

Issues:Economy & Small Business

January 16, 2013

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) released the following statement after President Obama announced new gun control proposals:


January 16, 2013
News Stories

POLITICO - David Rogers

New York will always be bigger. Connecticut’s richer. But if there’s one lesson from the Hurricane Sandy debate, it’s Don’t Mess With Jersey.


January 14, 2013
Weekly Columns

After the 113th Congress was officially sworn in on January 3, one of the first orders of business was to approve new rules under which the legislative process will operate during this session of Congress.

Issues:Economy & Small Business