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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.
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. The bill would mandate safety standards so that gas can companies can obtain liability insurance to defend themselves against baseless lawsuits. Cole previously introduced the legislation last year.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) released the following statement regarding the release of President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2014 budget plan:
“By submitting a budget that never achieves balance, President Obama has once again failed the most basic requirement of fiscally responsible governance. Raising taxes by $1 trillion and adding $1 trillion in new spending is not the approach we need to overcome our national debt and create jobs.
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.
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
One of the first questions reporters asked House Republicans when we unveiled our “Path to Prosperity” budget plan is “Why does the plan repeal Obamacare?” The answer is simple: Obamacare is an economic disaster.
The Hill - Sam Baker
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said Tuesday the GOP will introduce a bill to boost federal medical research — and pay for it by eliminating public funds for political conventions.
Cantor outlined the "Kids First Research Act" on World Autism Day. He said the bill, which Reps. Gregg Harper (R-Miss.) and Tom Cole (R-Okla.) will introduce "in the coming weeks," would redirect federal funds toward research at the National Institutes of Health.
Chickasaw Times - Tom Bolitho
The Indian women of the U.S.won a huge victory March 7 when President Barack Obama signed the bill reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act.
The bill was signed by the President at the U.S. Department of Interior with a score of Indian women there in support. Also invited to the signing was the key Indian Congressman who was the driving force behind the new “teeth” in the bill – U.S. Rep. Tom Cole, a Chickasaw.
Rep. Tom Cole (OK-04) hosts his monthly program "Cole on Congress" and visits with Rep. Don Young (AK) to provide an analysis on the issues facing our nation. (March 2013)
Rep. Tom Cole (OK-04) hosts his monthly program "Cole on Congress" and visits with Rep. Candice Miller (MI-10) to provide an analysis on the issues facing our nation. (March 2013)