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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. Coast Guard civilians and members of the National Guard were furloughed.
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. Fortunately, with the support of friends across our state and nation, we have persevered and lost no time in picking up the pieces and rebuilding our communities.
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.
House Republicans were set to vote after midnight on a proposal calling for a small group of House and Senate negotiators to tackle the problem. But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Senate Democrats would not agree to negotiate “with a gun to our head.”
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. Department of Transportation’s University Transportation Centers (UTC) program.
Associated Press - Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
Republicans pulling on the budget thread can't neatly unravel President Barack Obama's health care law.
A partial government shutdown next week would leave the major parts of the law in place and rolling along, according to former Democratic and Republican budget officials, as well as the Obama administration itself. Health care markets for the uninsured would open as scheduled on Tuesday.
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.
All five members of Oklahoma's House delegation voted for the bill, which would deny money to implement Obamacare but would keep government funded through mid-December. They all noted afterward that the intent of the bill was to keep government operating.
Norman, OK – Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) released the following statement after Cantor Fitzgerald, BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ:BGCP) and the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund, visited Moore on Monday, September 23 to distribute $1,000 prepaid debit cards to each family who had a child in the Moore Public School district at the time of the May 20 tornado and whose home was damaged or destroyed. Howard W. Lutnick, Chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P.
KFOR
A global financial firm will be in Moore, Oklahoma, Monday afternoon to give a much-needed and much-appreciated gift to those ravaged by the May tornadoes.
Officials with Cantor Fitzgerald and its affiliate, BCG partners, said they will be giving out a few $1,000 prepaid debit cards to families who had students enrolled in Moore schools May 20 and whose homes were destroyed during the tornado.
Few Americans support Obamacare, and its continued existence is a burdensome reality that has inspired numerous Republican efforts to dismantle the law. Most recently, the House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution that keeps the government running but prohibits any funding for further implementation of Obamacare.