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President Obama is having a field day campaigning against a Congress he says is not doing enough to create jobs -- despite the fact that House Republicans have passed more than 20 jobs bills that are now languishing in the Democratic Senate. However, when presented with a golden opportunity to create 20,000 jobs and decrease America's reliance on foreign oil, President Obama punted.
The U.S. national debt reached the latest in a series of sobering milestones recently. As of November 15, our accumulated debt officially stands at more than $15 trillion. Worse still, $4.4 trillion of that debt was racked up just since President Obama took office.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Tom Cole (OK-04) released the following statement after the House of Representatives voted on H.J. Res. 2, a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution:
There are certainly members on this floor that are a lot more knowledgeable about this particular piece of legislation than I am. I don't serve on any of the relevant subcommittees on Appropriations, and so they're going to talk about it in more depth and detail than I ever could. But I tell you what -- and I certainly would be the first to say -- that we did not have a perfect process.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Tom Cole (OK-04) released the following statement after the House of Representatives passed H.R. 822, the National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act, which allows law-abiding gun owners with valid state-issued concealed firearm permits or licenses to carry a concealed firearm in any other state that also allows concealed carry.
New Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has been charged with cutting $450 billion from the Defense Department over the next 10 years. In keeping with that goal, the Air Force recently announced a realignment that will ultimately benefit Tinker Air Force Base.
Bipartisan cooperation is often hard to come by in Washington, but some ideas are so bad that both Republicans and Democrats can agree to work together to oppose them. Such is the case with taxation of employee health benefits.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Members of the Oklahoma Congressional Delegation today reacted to news that Tinker Air Force Base’s (AFB) Air Logistics Center (ALC) will become the new single head for Air Force sustainment and logistics.
While President Obama crisscrosses the country complaining that Congress is not doing enough to create jobs, House Republicans quietly passed our 17th job-related bill of the year. Members of the president's own party even joined us this time, providing bipartisan action on jobs -- in contrast to a White House that only contributes empty, divisive rhetoric.