A fight over President Obama’s use of executive privilege on the documents that led to Attorney General Eric Holder’s contempt charges is increasingly likely to be decided in court.
The way the court decides could drastically limit congressional subpoena powers — or curb the extent to which the president can claim executive privilege.
For the time being, House Republicans and the Department of Justice (DOJ) are about to launch into court-ordered mediations to reach a settlement.
Governor Mary Fallin today announced the following appointments to various boards, agencies and commissions. Included on the list are several distinguished active Tulsans. The organization and brief qualification summary of the appointees follow:
Board of Trustees for the Quartz Mountain Arts and Conference Center and Nature Park
Warren Greenlee of Altus is president of NBC Bank in Altus. He is the current chairman of the Oklahoma Arts Institute, and is a past chairman of both the American Bankers Association Agricultural and Rural Bankers Committee and the Oklahoma Bankers Association. Greenlee earned a bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics from Oklahoma State University. He is being reappointed to the board for a seven-year term. The appointment requires Senate confirmation.
After a string of speakers this week who hope one day to be President of the United States, Sarah Palin spoke to a packed house at the Conservative Political Action Committee gathering as she explained her vision of the future.
She was introduced by Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who had been a keynote speaker.
“The mainstream media wants us to be timid and hide in a corner. And the mainstream media is absolutely convinced that women cannot be conservatives, and if they are, they especially cannot shoot really big guns and hunt grizzly bears,” Cruz said. “That’s why Governor Sarah Palin drives the mainstream media batcrap crazy,” Cruz said.
A measure creating a special task force that would review the formulas used by the Oklahoma State Board of Education in developing the controversial A-F school grading system passed out of the House of Representatives last week.
House Bill 2044, by state Rep. Katie Henke, would create a 15-member “School Report and Assessment Calculation Review Task Force” charged with evaluating the calculation metrics used by state education department to publish the annual reports of the Oklahoma School Testing Program and evaluation system, which assigns school districts and sites grades based on an A through F ranking system.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In an ongoing effort to hold President Morsi of Egypt accountable, U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) Wednesday sponsored amendment 52 to the Senate Continuing Resolution (CR) to conditionally suspend the sale of F-16s to Egypt. He also cosponsored amendment 28 by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) to withhold all U.S. foreign aid to Egypt until President Morsi declares that he intends to abide by the Camp David Peace Accords.
“For months, I have been calling for President Obama and his Administration to hold President Morsi accountable for failing to promote promised democracy in Egypt and for the instability in the region,” said Inhofe. “After several attempts to engage the Administration to halt our F-16 delivery, I introduced legislation in January to suspend the shipment of these top-of-the-line military aircrafts and other military equipment to Egypt. I have now presented this as an amendment to the Senate’s Continuing Resolution, and am also supporting my colleague Sen. Rand Paul’s similar amendment to conditionally withhold all foreign aid funding to Egypt. We both agree that any support to Egypt must be reconsidered until President Morsi agrees to abide by the Camp David Peace Accords, which has kept the peace between Egypt and Israel for more than 30 years.”
