Oklahoma congressman Kevin Hern sees President Biden’s budget proposal to Congress for fiscal year 23 as another attack on the energy industry. “The Biden Administration began their attack on American energy on Day 1. Today’s budget announcement continues that war, ensuring prices at the pump continue to rise and further increasing our dependence on foreign oil,” stated the Tulsa… Read more »

Representative Kevin Hern (OK-01) released the following statement after voting in favor of HR 7108, the Suspending Normal Trade Relations with Russia and Belarus Act. The bill passed the House on a vote of 424-8. “Yesterday, the whole of Congress listened as President Zelenskyy implored the US government to do more to protect his people,” said Rep. Hern. “Today’s vote further… Read more »

Representative Kevin Hern votes in favor of HR 7108, the Suspending Normal Trade Relations with Russia and Belarus Act. The bill passed the House on a vote of 424-8. In a statement, Rep. Hern said: “Yesterday, the whole of Congress listened as President Zelenskyy implored the US government to do more to protect his people. Today’s vote further cripples the Russian economy by… Read more »

President Joe Biden "would rather negotiate with dictators" than focus on getting oil from states like Oklahoma, Texas, and North Dakota; and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been "complicit" in making that happen, Rep. Kevin Hern said on Newsmax Thursday.  "He's been sitting here begging Venezuela and these dictators to help out, [but] he's been doing this actually since day one,"… Read more »

In The Hill this week, Oklahoma Republican Congressman Kevin Hern offered a column on his thoughts about President Biden and his war on oil and gas. Here is what he wrote: The Biden administration refuses to take the blame for their self-inflicted energy crisis. While gas prices have steadily risen for a year, Biden wants Americans to believe that — rather than his own failed… Read more »

Oklahoma Republican Rep. Kevin Hern has criticized President Biden for pushing for a transition to clean energy during his speech announcing his ban on all Russian energy exports and as American gas prices reached a record $4.17 a gallon. Hern accused Biden of 'intentionally' driving up gas prices to grow support for his electric vehicle initiatives in a statement to DailyMail.com,… Read more »

Whether he was expecting anything more than he heard Tuesday night in the President’s State of the Union Address, Oklahoma U.S. Rep. Kevin Hern was disappointed. He said afterward there was only one thing Oklahomans needed to hear from the President and that was an immediate commitment to energy independence.   “We didn’t hear that. President Biden could have announced the… Read more »

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden drew mixed reviews from both sides of the aisle to his State of the Union speech Tuesday but the Oklahoma delegation made clear its disappointment. Biden’s speech focused on a message of unity during the encroaching Russian-Ukrainian conflict, energy, infrastructure, and inflation.  But the delegation heard something else. “The speech we… Read more »

A group of Republican lawmakers hosted Americans at the Capitol on Tuesday to hold their own State of the Union event where they said Joe Biden's address later in the evening will not give a true representation of the dire situations facing the U.S. Leading the event dubbed by organizers as the 'real State of the Union' were the top three ranking Republicans in the House: Minority… Read more »

TULSA, Okla. — Elected officials representing Oklahoma spoke out Tuesday in response to the rapidly developing tension between Russia and NATO in Ukraine. U.S. Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) joined the American Center for Law and Justice Jay Sekulow radio show Tuesday to push for sanctions on Russia. "While a lot of people have been focusing on Russia, rightly so-these are Russian… Read more »