Both Representatives Markwayne Mullin and James Lankford from Oklahoma have issued statements of support for the establishment of the Select Committee on Benghazi after the House of Representatives approved H. Res. 567.

“For the second time this week, we find ourselves asking for accountability from this Administration. Four Americans were lost on that tragic day in Benghazi nearly two years ago. Yet after these many months, we still don’t know what really happened,” Mullin said.

Lankford said, “Establishing a Select Committee on Benghazi is not a political issue; it is proper congressional oversight in the wake of the attack and the Administration’s stonewalling of our current investigation.”

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Republican Sen. Ted Cruz released a definitive list Wednesday of 76 “lawless” Obama administration actions and abuses of power reported with a full copy of the report on The Daily Caller.

Cruz’s “The Legal Limit Report No. 4,” delves into little-known and little-reported details of President Obama’s executive actions. Cruz discussed his report at the Federalist Society in the Promenade Ballroom of the Mayflower Hotel in Washington Wednesday.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), senior member of the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, released the following statement in response to President Obama’s National Climate Assessment released today:

“This climate assessment seems conveniently timed for the week the Senate could be debating the need to approve the Keystone XL as well as expediting the export of liquefied natural gas. Now that another climate change billionaire, Tom Steyer, has entered the scene and put at least $100 million on the campaign table, the President and my colleagues are jumping at opportunities to sideline critical domestic energy opportunities for the United States and instead discuss global warming alarmism. Fear tactics and money are powerful tools in politics.
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Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK)

U.S. Senators and doctors Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK), John Barrasso, M.D. (R-WY), John Boozman, O.D. (R-AR), and Rand Paul, M.D. (R-KY) last week introduced S. 2278, the Safeguarding Care of Patients Everywhere Act, to eliminate a provision from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that allows the Secretary of HHS to prohibit health insurers from working with medical providers who don’t meet Secretary-established criteria for quality. A House version of the bill, authored by Representative Gingrey (R-GA), was introduced last year.

“A political appointee now has full discretion to determine what constitutes as ‘quality’ care, despite what is actually best for an individual patient,” said Dr. Coburn. “Allowing an unelected bureaucrat to have unilateral power to interfere with the physician-patient relationship is unprecedented.”

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House Republicans moved on two fronts Friday to find answers on Benghazi, with Speaker John Boehner announcing a special committee to investigate and a key panel subpoenaing Secretary of State John Kerry to testify.

Representative James Lankford (R-Ok) Thursday questioned a panel of witnesses at the House Oversight Committee’s hearing entitled, “Benghazi, Instability, and a New Government: Successes and Failures of U.S. Intervention in Libya.” Today, Lankford joined Boehner in support of a Special Investigation.

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