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WASHINGTON — The U.S. House on Wednesday approved an $800-billion-plus package of spending and tax cuts designed to stimulate the nation's ailing economy.
With Oklahoma lawmakers voting 4-1 against the legislation, the final tally was 244 to 188.
Today, Congressman Frank Lucas will take a stand against government waste by voting against the Pelosi-Obama economic “stimulus” package. The bill has an estimated cost of $825 billion, which is almost as much as the annual discretionary budget for the entire federal government. This piece of legislation is in addition to the $700 billion bailout Congress passed last year.
WASHINGTON -- As the U.S. House moved toward a vote on an $825 billion economic stimulus package, Rep. Frank Lucas said today that he would oppose it because of its high cost and spending that he said won't lead to more jobs.
Last week, President Obama issued an executive order closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which houses hundreds of suspected terrorists and enemy combatants. I was shocked by this announcement, but even more concerned by the fact that the President had no plans as to what would happen next.
WASHINGTON — With a congressional delegation of six Republicans and only one Democrat, there is no question the state's standing in the nation's capitol took a major hit in last year's elections.
WASHINGTON — Members of the Oklahoma congressional delegation vowed Friday to fight any effort to transfer Guantanamo Bay prisoners to the state.
Power on the House Agriculture Committee is shifting slightly from the South to the Plains states in the 111th Congress.
As expected, Congressman Frank Lucas announced that the former Chairman and ranking member of the House Ag Committee, Bob Goodlatte of Virginia will take the subcommitte ranking position that Lucas has held the last couple of years- and that two other key subcommittee ranking positions will be retained by the veteran members of the House Ag Committee.
WASHINGTON - In a largely symbolic vote, all five Oklahomans in the U.S. House voted for a resolution Thursday to block the second half of the $700 billion bailout of the nation’s financial system.