Cole Announces Committees, Office Locations for 114th Congress

Washington, D.C. – Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) released the following statement after his committee assignments for the 114th Congress were finalized. Cole will remain on three committees in the House, including the Budget Committee, Appropriations Committee and Rules Committee.

As established in the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and present in the official rules of the House, the Budget Committee must have three members of the majority party and two from the minority also serve on the Appropriations Committee. For the third consecutive Congress, Cole was reappointed to the Budget Committee as one of these three Republican members, and he will now be considered the Senior Appropriator on the panel.

On the Appropriations Committee, Cole will serve as the newly-appointed chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies; he previously served as chairman of the Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch. He will also continue to serve on the Subcommittee on Defense and Subcommittee on Interior.

"Last week's swearing in marked the beginning of a historic Republican majority in Congress that was decisively elected by the American people," said Cole. "I am honored to continue representing the Fourth District of Oklahoma, and I am optimistic that we can find real solutions that the nation desperately needs. I look forward to the challenge of leading part of that effort both in my subcommittee chairmanship and other subcommittee and committee assignments."

In his seventh term representing the Fourth District of Oklahoma, Congressman Cole also announced that his new office location for Washington, D.C. will be 2467 Rayburn House Office Building. His Oklahoma offices in Norman, Ada and Lawton will remain the same.

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