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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.
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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.
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.