On Wednesday, I opposed a measure in the House of Representatives to pass a continuing resolution to fund the government until December 11, 2014. I also opposed an amendment to arm and train moderate Syrian rebels to fight ISIS.
On Wednesday, I cosponsored and supported the Waters of the United States Regulatory Overreach Protection Act, H.R. 5078. Under the Clean Waters Act, the EPA has created a new rule expanding the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency to redefine “navigable waterways” to include self contained bodies of water that do not expand from state to state.
Rep. Jim Bridenstine said Monday that he wants “unfettered access” to the Fort Sill facility housing unaccompanied alien children, and he criticized the media tour scheduled for Thursday at the U.S. Army post in southwestern Oklahoma.
Representative Jim Bridenstine (R., Okla.), who was was denied access to an immigrant-detainee facility run by the Health and Human Services Department in his state on Monday, says he felt he had to visit it amidst reports of rape and abuse from children being held in the military barracks.
The following is a partial transcript of an interview with Congressman Jim Bridenstine(OK-1) that featured in the Monday, June 9th edition of Secure Freedom Radio.
The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) mission statement reads as follows; “We provide leadership on food, agriculture, natural resources, rural development, nutrition, and related issues based on sound public policy, the best available science, and efficient management.”
In the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year (FY) 2015, I offered three successful amendments that will benefit Oklahomans. Each of these measures was originally cut in the Obama Administration’s proposed budget.
Despite the war-like hostility of the Obama Administration to the traditional carbon based energy that fueled the industrial revolution, the entrepreneurship and modern technology of America’s private economy is producing a boom in oil and gas production that is overwhelming President Obama.