Dr. Coburn (R-OK) appearing today on a morning talk show asserted his holds the most conservative record in the U.S. Senate and that Senator Cruz’s demand to defund Obamacare was “a short term goal with lousy objectives.”
“I’d love to get rid of Obamacare, but I don’t see a path forward to doing that until the President is out of office,” Coburn added.
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Erika Solomon from Beirut for Reuters reports that powerful Syrian insurgent units have rejected the authority of the opposition Syrian National Coalition (SNC), badly damaging efforts by Western-backed political exiles to forge a moderate rebel military force on the ground.
Thirteen groups, including at least three previously considered part of the coalition’s military wing, the Free Syrian Army (FSA), signed a statement calling for the opposition to President Bashar al-Assad to be reorganized under an Islamic framework and to be run only by groups fighting inside Syria.
Senator Jim Inhofe
U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) released the following statement late yesterday afternoon correcting false information in robo calls to Oklahomans. The misrepresentations were issued by the TeaPartyPatriots.org.
“You have heard or are going to hear from a group making automated phone calls in Oklahoma implying that I will be voting to fund ObamaCare. This is wrong. Let me assure you that I will be voting this week to defund ObamaCare with my friend Sen. Ted Cruz in his current efforts in the Senate. Now is our opportunity to deal with this disastrous law, and this law has got to go.
Updated: Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, rose on the Senate floor at 2:41 p.m. He stood in opposition to Obamacare, he said. And he said he would continue to speak until he could no longer stand.
According to the National Journal, “It’s not a filibuster. But it’s looking like it may be a very, very long speech from the Texas senator who has been the center of attention in D.C.’s budget fight, and the Senate leader in a doomed-to-fail movement to strip funding for Obamacare out of any resolution that Congress passes to fund the government. If Congress fails to come to an agreement, the government will shutdown at the end of September.”
Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R)
Congressman Markwayne Mullin (OK-2) praised the passage of H.R. 3080, the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2013 (WRRDA), out of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on Thursday.
As the only Oklahoman to serve on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Mullin worked diligently with fellow committee members in developing the water infrastructure reform legislation that directly impacts the state.
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