Boren a No on Boehner Plan
Rep. Dan Boren, D-Muskogee, said this morning that he will vote against House Speaker John Boehner’s two-step plan to raise the debt ceiling and cut the deficit. Reps. Tom Cole, R-Moore, and James Lankford, R-Oklahoma City, have already said they would vote for it. The vote is scheduled for sometime Thursday.
Here is Boren’s statement:
“The last thing our country needs is to default on its financial obligations, but Speaker Boehner’s plan does not make the necessary changes to address …
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Redistricting: Oklahoma City releases proposed ward map, sets public meeting
The proposed ward map for the City of Oklahoma City was released on Tuesday. In the map below (click for a larger version), the current wards are in color, while the proposed boundaries are outlined in the brownish-black dotted lines. A lot of the population growth has come in the far northwest part of the [...]
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Visualizing $1 trillion
Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Muskogee, is getting a lot of attention today with his plan to cut $9 trillion in federal spending in the next decade. My colleague Chris Casteel had an update this afternoon. Here’s a look at just how much money just $1 trillion actually is, courtesy of the venture capital firm KPCB. [...]
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U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas Cancels Town Hall Meetings
Because the U.S. House will stay in session next week as leaders try to work out a debt ceiling agreement with the president, Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Cheyenne, announced Tuesday that he must cancel town hall meetings scheduled for Perry, Billings, Blackwell, Ponca City, Stillwater, Cushing and Guthrie.…
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President Obama to Host Twitter Town Hall Meeting
President Barack Obama is scheduled to answer questions at 1 p.m. central time on Wednesday on the first White House Twitter town hall meeting. Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey will moderate the event. Questions can be posed now using the hashtag #AskObama.
More information on the event can be found here.…
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Correcting the legislative record on the public employee DOB case
First off, let’s get some disclosures out of the way: My birth date is 6/27/75. I’m a board member for FOI Oklahoma Inc. I signed several sworn affidavits in the court case pursued by The Oklahoman and other media outlets on gaining access to the birth dates and employee ID numbers of state employees for [...]
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