OK Senator Jim Inhofe
Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, says new revelations about the National Security Agency’s surveillance program suggest the Obama administration has “abused the authority granted to them by Congress” and that he will investigate the matter.
Inhofe’s statement shows a growing concern on Capitol Hill about the scope of the NSA’s intelligence gathering and adds to the calls for additional congressional oversight.
Sen. Tom Coburn
Updated: U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) announced the schedule for a series of town hall meetings that will take place in August at various locations across Oklahoma. Dr. Coburn will take questions and address important issues for Oklahoma and the nation at each event.
“I am eager to hear the concerns of Oklahomans and inform them of my legislative efforts in the Senate,” said Dr. Coburn.
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The Hill is reporting that Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) on Thursday lashed out at outside groups who are pressuring lawmakers to tie any proposal to fund the government to the defunding of ObamaCare, saying their lobbying has only made him more opposed to the plan.
“My attitude … you start pushing, you just get me to push back harder,” Coburn said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
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Updated: Pinned inside her mangled Mercedes, seriously injured and fading fast, Katie Lentz turned to her rescuers on the lonely open stretch of Missouri highway and asked them to pray.
Struck head-on by a drunk driver on Sunday morning, emergency workers had been battling for an hour and a half to free Lentz, but to no avail.
But as they joined hands a Catholic priest appeared, even though there were no bystanders and the road was blocked, who offered a prayer and an instruction to the rescuers that they would now be able to free her.
FOX News has posted a video interview with a Tennessee newspaper editor who was fired for a headline critical of President Obama. He says his bosses bowed to pressure from the president’s supporters, claiming he wouldn’t have been canned if he had said the same of former President George W. Bush.
Drew Johnson’s editorial, titled “Take your jobs plan and shove it, Mr. President: Your policies have harmed Chattanooga enough,” went viral and drew national attention earlier this week when Obama visited the city.
The Chattanooga Times Free Press editorial page editor was later ousted. The newspaper released a statement Thursday saying Johnson had been fired for “placing a headline on an editorial outside of normal editing procedures.”
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