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April 22, 2013
Weekly Columns

Tax day and the stress that comes along with it has come and gone at last. The annual drill of gathering all those necessary income documents, navigating complicated instructions, completing numerous tax forms and finally filing our taxes is over—at least for now.


April 19, 2013

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) remembered the tragedy of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing in Oklahoma City.


April 16, 2013

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) congratulated Mary Anne Morgan after she was crowned the 65th U.S. Cherry Blossom Queen last Friday. Morgan, who serves as Staff Assistant for the Congressman’s Washington office, is the first Oklahoman Cherry Blossom Princess to be named queen.


April 16, 2013
Washington, D.C.– Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) announced an addition to his DC staff with the recent hiring of Sarah Corley as Communications Director. Corley replaces long time Cole Communications Director Jocelyn Rogers.

April 15, 2013
News Stories

Bloomberg - Kathleen Hunter & Roxana Tiron

Movement on gun control and immigration in the U.S. Senate obscures an inevitable roadblock to either measure: a resistant Republican-run House.

Issues:Second AmendmentImmigration

April 12, 2013
Weekly Columns

Two months late and $8.2 trillion short, President Obama’s fiscal year 2014 budget blueprint finally arrived on Capitol Hill. While the unveiling of the White House budget is usually the first event of the yearly budget season, its arrival well after passage of the House Republican budget makes the contrast between the two plans even more dramatic.

Issues:Economy & Small Business

April 10, 2013

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) and co-sponsor Congressman Markwayne Mullin (OK-02) today introduced legislation to protect gasoline can manufacturers from frivolous lawsuits. These companies are vulnerable to litigation due to the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s failure to issue safety standards for their product.


April 10, 2013

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) released the following statement regarding the release of President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2014 budget plan:


April 8, 2013
Weekly Columns

If only President Obama would take his approach to energy production and apply it to the national debt, we’d be down to 2007 levels in no time. According to a new report from the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service (CRS), his administration’s policies have caused production on federal lands to plummet.

Issues:Energy & Environment

April 8, 2013

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04), who holds a Ph.D in British history, issued the following statement on the death of former British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher