Sen. James Lankford

Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today released a video statement on President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. The full video is included at the end of this story.

Sen. Lankford said, “We announced, in the United States Senate, a month ago that, no, we’re not going to try to move on someone in an election year.

“This has been the same thing we have done throughout decades of history in the Senate that we don’t put people in the Supreme Court during the final year of an administration.”

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Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK)

WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), participated Tuesday in a SASC Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support hearing entitled: “Current State of Readiness of U.S. Forces.” In the hearing, Inhofe engaged with witnesses about the degradation of our air power and the impact on personnel and maintenance as a result of historically steep budget cuts under the Obama administration.

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Hillary Clinton

The Washington Post is reporting today that the Justice Department has granted immunity to a former State Department staffer, who worked on Hillary Clinton’s private email server, as part of a criminal investigation into the possible mishandling of classified information, according to a senior law enforcement official.

The official said the FBI had secured the cooperation of Bryan Pagliano, who worked on Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign before setting up the server in her New York home in 2009.

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