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Reuters - Heide Brandes
The chairman of a New York-based investment bank that lost more than half its employees in the attacks on September 11, 2001, handed out $1,000 debit cards on Monday to victims of last May's deadly tornado in Oklahoma, as it continued its program of helping others who suffered devastating loss.
The Oklahoman - Jane Glenn Cannon
No one knows loss better than the employees of Cantor Fitzgerald, the financial services firm that lost 658 of its 960 New York employees in the World Trade Center attacks.
The surviving employees also remember who were among the first to comfort them after the attack: Oklahomans.
“That's why there was no question but that we would help the victims of the May 20 tornado,” said Howard Lutnick, chief executive officer of Cantor Fitzgerald and BGC Partners Inc.
New York Times - John Harwood
Its white-hot opposition to Mr. Obama, seen first in lawmakers’ town hall meetings and then in the 2010 midterm election campaign, helped cost Democrats control of the House. It could yet help Republicans hold their majority in 2014.
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04), a member of the Smithsonian Board of Regents, issued the following statement after Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough announced his intention to retire in October 2014 after serving the Institution since July 2008. During his tenure, Secretary Clough has overseen the 19 museums and galleries and National Zoo in Washington, D.C., most of which are located on the National Mall.
During the month of August, I had the opportunity to have conversations with hundreds of individuals across the Fourth District through town hall meetings, local business visits and other informal meetings. As we visited together at every meeting, there were several recurring questions and issues that came up, particularly those concerning the future of Obamacare, the National Security Agency, immigration reform and American military involvement in Syria.
Tulsa World - Congressman Tom Cole
After the recent chemical attack in Syria, the American people expressed their strong opposition to the military strike proposed by President Obama. Through phone calls, emails, letters and town hall meetings, my Oklahoma constituents made it abundantly clear to me that they were strongly and unequivocally opposed to any U.S. involvement in Syria's civil war.
The Washington Post - Terry Atlas, Kathleen Hunter and Michael C. Bender
The U.S. Senate is putting off consideration of a resolution authorizing strikes against Syria to give President Barack Obama the “time and space” to pursue diplomacy with Russia, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said.
Obama has postponed a decision on military action against Syria, sparing himself a possible political defeat at home and plunging the U.S. into potentially protracted negotiations with a global rival.
National Journal - Billy House
With big deadlines and political hurdles looming over fights to keep the government funded and hike the nation’s borrowing limit, a meeting Thursday of the top four congressional leaders could set the tone for the autumn.
Defense News - John T. Bennett
The drums of war were replaced Thursday on Capitol Hill by a more familiar sound: House and Senate leaders bickering over federal spending.
Congressional leaders obliged this week to President Barack Obama’s request to delay votes to authorize US military strikes to punish Bashar al-Assad for an Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack that killed over 1,000 people. It became clear Thursday that Capitol Hill has moved beyond Syria came as those very leaders clashed over the shape of a temporary government-wide spending measure.