Oklahoma Politics News

The state fire marshal's office can't account for a missing shotgun and has failed to meet its legal duty to annually inspect all Oklahoma correctional facilities, a state audit has revealed.

The Obama administration issued a veto threat for the multi-year farm bill set for consideration by the U.S. House this week. The statement says the bill cuts too much from the food stamp program and not enough from subsidies to farmers. Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Cheyenne, is the chairman of the...

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Sean Higgins Click to read full article at Washington Examiner

Sean Higgins Click to read full article at Washington Examiner

David M. Drucker The Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute on Tuesday continued their debate over comprehensive immigration reform, this time before a closed-door meeting of the Republican Study Committee.

Joseph Lawler As the Federal Reserve begins a two-day meeting to determine monetary policy, there are signs cropping up that the markets are confused about what Chairman Ben Bernanke and company are saying  – or unconvinced that they will follow through with their promises.

Charlie Spiering Gov. Chris Christie elicited boos from students at an elementary school in New Jersey on Tuesday after he explained that he was a fan of the Dallas Cowboys — not the New York Jets or Giants. Christie admitted that it probably wasn’t a very popular answer in New Jersey —...

Susan Ferrechio The National Security Agency’s power to scrutinize Americans' telephone records has helped thwart more than 50 potential terrorist plots, including plans to bomb both the New York City subway system and the New York Stock Exchange, officials said Tuesday as they defended the...

Brian Hughes President Obama and other world leaders at the G-8 summit Tuesday agreed in calling for an end to the two-year civil war in Syria, but the U.S. and its allies could not convince Russia to unite behind a call for the ouster of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

Susan Crabtree World leaders at the Group of Eight summit in Northern Ireland signed off on an agreement aimed at cracking down on tax evasion as part of transatlantic trade negotiations. In still uncertain economic times, U.S. and European leaders want to force large corporations to pay more...

Charlie Spiering Click to read full article at Washington Examiner

Ashe Schow Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., told Sean Hannity on Monday that what the Obama administration and the National Security Agency did with the Patriot Act was “clearly not within the law.” Referring to the dragnet collection of American citizens’ phone records and Internet...

Susan Crabtree Vice President Joe Biden, angrily denouncing opponents of gun control, predicted Tuesday that senators who helped block an expansion of background checks for gun sales two months ago would pay a political price for their votes.

Ashe Schow Click to read full article at Washington Examiner

Joel Gehrke Two service members charged with sexual assault cannot be kicked out of the military, even if they are convicted, because comments made by President Obama about the issue constitute “unlawful command influence,” according to a military judge in Hawaii.

Sean Lengell Sen. Ted Cruz wasted little time in reacting to Monday's Supreme Court rejection of an Arizona law that demands would-be voters prove they are citizens, filing legislation hours later to allow the measure to return. The high court voted 7-2 to throw out Arizona's voter-approved...

Susan Ferrechio The Republican-led House Tuesday passed a bill banning most abortions after 20 weeks.

Philip Klein If the Senate immigration bill becomes law, federal health care spending would increase by $112 billion over the next decade as more people take advantage of Medicaid, Medicare and subsidies from President Obama’s health care law, according to the Congressional Budget Office. In...

Michael Barone Click to read full article at Washington Examiner

Ashe Schow In a new Gallup poll, Americans rate Republicans less favorably than Democrats, 39 percent to 46 percent.