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The outrage against nationalized health care has reached the voting booth -- and in dramatic fashion. Last week, Massachusetts voters stunned the nation by electing Republican Scott Brown to the Senate seat held for nearly 47 years by Ted Kennedy. This bluest of blue states voted overwhelmingly for President Obama in 2008 and had not elected a Republican to the Senate in decades. With Tuesday's election, they're not only sending a Republican to Washington; they're sending a message.
WASHINGTON - Oklahoma’s House Delegation is urging Speaker Pelosi to exclude any unfunded federal mandates from the final health care bill. In a letter to the Speaker, the House Delegation said the unfunded Medicaid mandates in the House-passed bill would have a crippling effect on the state of Oklahoma. “As a delegation, we are deeply concerned this mandate would force drastic funding cuts for valuable state programs and significantly deteriorate the choice and quality of Oklahomans’ health care programs,” they wrote.
Time and again, Americans have made it absolutely clear that we don’t want a government takeover of health care. And, time and again, President Obama and Congressional Democrats have ignored our wishes and pressed ahead with their unpopular plans.
On Inauguration Day, Barack Obama pledged to “seek a new way forward” in American foreign policy, “based on mutual interest and mutual respect.” Less than a year later, we received a stark reminder that al Qaeda terrorists have no intention of seeking a new way forward. The attempted terror attack on Christmas Day made it clear that our enemies remain as determined as ever to kill innocent Americans, regardless of who occupies the Oval Office.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) issued the following statement today supporting C-SPAN's request to air coverage of the health care reform negotiations.
Rep. Tom Cole (OK-04) hosts his monthly program "Cole on Congress" and visits with Rep. Wally Herger (CA-02) to provide an analysis on the issues facing our nation. (December 2009)
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Congressman Tom Cole (OK-4) announced today that he will be holding a town hall meeting in Chickasha on the campus of the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma (USAO) in the Troutt Building's TeAta Auditorium. Cole will be available to answer questions and members of his staff will be on hand to assist with federal casework.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Tom Cole (R-OK) and Congressmen Dale E. Kildee (D-MI), Co-Chairs of the House Native American Caucus, praised today’s announcement of a long-awaited settlement of the Cobell lawsuit regarding the mismanagement of over 300,000 individual Indian trust accounts by the U.S. Government.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Tom Cole (R-OK) and Congressmen Dale E. Kildee (D-MI), Co-Chairs of the House Native American Caucus, praised today’s announcement of a long-awaited settlement of the Cobell lawsuit regarding the mismanagement of over 300,000 individual Indian trust accounts by the U.S. Government.
Recently, in a prime time address delivered at West Point, President Obama finally announced his long awaited plan for a new strategy in Afghanistan. I believe the President made a compelling case for why it is absolutely critical that America defeat al Qaeda and prevent its capacity to threaten America and our allies. The men and women of the Armed Forces are fighting a battle on multiple fronts against an increasingly sophisticated enemy. Providing additional manpower and resources to our troops is vitally important as we move forward.