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Washington, D.C. – With just a few days left until the President signs the historical bipartisan Medicare and Prescription Drug Bill, Congressman Tom Cole toured the Norman Regional Hospital and discussed the benefits for the local hospital under the new law.

Washington, D.C. – The bipartisan Medicare Conference Report (H.R. 1) grants all 523,409 Medicare beneficiaries in Oklahoma access to a voluntary Medicare prescription drug benefit – for the first time in the history of the Medicare program.

Washington, D.C. – Today a House-Senate agreement on a comprehensive national energy policy was debated on the House floor. Congressman Cole voted for this bill that passed in the House, 246-180.

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Tom Cole voted today in support of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004 Conference Report (H.R. 1588), which passed in the House 362-40.

Washington, D.C. – Congressman Cole voted today to provide $87.5 billion to support U.S. troops and rebuild Iraq.

Washington, D.C. – Congressman Tom Cole voted against the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for FY 2004 Conference Report (H.R. 2691), which passed the House 216-205

Washington, D.C. – Senator Don Nickles (R-OK), Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Congressman Ernest Istook (R-OK), Congressman Frank Lucas (R-OK), Congressman John Sullivan (R-OK) and Congressman Tom Cole (R-OK) have all been recognized for their unwavering commitment to the family when the Family Research Council (FRC) honored them with the annual “True Blue” award at a reception on Capitol Hill Tuesday evening.

Washington, D.C. – After an important vote to provide $87 billion to support U.S. troops and rebuild Iraq, Congressman Tom Cole along with eight other Members of Congress boarded an Air Force C-32, the military version of the Boeing 757-200, and traveled to Kuwait City, Kuwait and then to Baghdad and Mosul, Iraq.