Few Oklahomans could afford the admission price to Congressman Sullivan’s Charleston event this week. Just in order to step through the door of the room where Sullivan will be, people will have to give Sullivan $1,500, or $2,500 if they’re representing a political action committee.
The departure of Congressman Boren can be seen as one part of a broader opportunity for Democrats to distance their party from the Republican-friendly politics of the Blue Dog Coalition, to which Boren belonged.
Which part of Betty McCollum’s statement is deeply offensive to all Oklahomans? Is it the part that declares that another terrorist attack like the one against the Oklahoma City federal building should not take place ever again?
Most of the Senate debate on the afternoon of December 8 leading up to the rejection of the Nelson-Hatch Amendment was pretty predictable. The amendment itself, after all, was a near cookie-cutter copy of the Stupak Amendment that was passed earlier this month in the House of Representatives. Both amendments prohibit private health insurance plans [...]
Oklahoma Republican Frank Lucas tries to explain why he is against any regulatory effort to reduce greenhouse gases: They go about that by increasing taxes on all forms of energy, and agriculture is a very energy-intense business, whether it is the diesel for the tractors to put the crop in the ground, the energy to [...]
The Oklahoma Democrats still haven’t been able to muster a challenger to any of the Republican incumbents in the House or Senate. Dan Boren, the single Democratic incumbent in Congress, has three Republican challengers.
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