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Hern hosts first subcommittee meeting on affordability for GOP Healthy Futures Task Force

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Representative Kevin Hern (OK-01), chair of the Healthy Futures Task Force subcommittee on affordability, hosted the first meeting of subcommittee members on Monday this week. Members of the subcommittee include Representatives Rick Allen and Victoria Spartz.  “Americans have been demanding an answer to rising health care costs,” said Rep. Hern. “Today we took…

Hern leads over 100 members on letter promising no GOP support to raise debt ceiling

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Representative Kevin Hern (OK-01) led 106 Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives on a letter to the American people yesterday, affirming their commitment to fiscal responsibility and promising not to participate in any attempt from the Democrats to raise the debt ceiling. Historically, negotiations to raise the debt ceiling have been bipartisan.  “Over the last…

Hern statement in response to the death of American marines in Kabul

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Representative Kevin Hern (OK-01) released the following statement after learning about the death of four U.S. Marines in an attack at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan.  “President Biden now has the blood of American patriots on his hands,” said Rep. Hern. “This tragedy can only be a direct result of his lack of leadership. He has failed the American people as…

Hern’s District Work Highlights

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In wrapping up the last three weeks of district work, Representative Kevin Hern (OK-01) engaged in dozens meetings across Oklahoma’s First Congressional District with civic organizations, small business owners, non-profit organizations, chambers of commerce, police officers, firefighters, medical institutions, veterans, agriculture leaders, local press and even the Tulsa…

Hern: Biden is “spectacularly incompetent”

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Representative Kevin Hern (OK-01) released the following statement in response to President Joe Biden’s address to the nation this afternoon.  “Joe Biden seems to have taken a page out of the ‘blame anyone but me’ playbook from one of the biggest failures of the Democratic Party: Hillary Clinton,” said Rep. Hern. “Biden took a few hours break from his vacation in order to…

Hern statement on the situation in Afghanistan

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Representative Kevin Hern released the following statement on the Taliban’s violent takeover of Afghanistan, destruction of democracy.   “The foreign policy disaster unfolding in Afghanistan, which many previously predicted, seems to come as a surprise to President Biden and his Administration,” said Rep. Hern. “Now, they are caught flat-footed and seem to have no…

Hern slams Biden Admin for bad energy policy, targeting domestic oil industry

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Representative Kevin Hern (OK-01) released the following statement criticizing President Biden’s recent efforts urging OPEC to increase oil production after irreparably damaging Americans’ ability to produce oil domestically. “Hypocrisy is nothing new in this White House,” said Rep. Hern. “President Biden catered to supporters of the radical Green New Deal when he ended the Keystone…

Hern joins Dobbs v. Jackson amicus brief

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Representative Kevin Hern (OK-01) officially joined an amicus brief in support of Dobbs v. Jackson, a case headed to the Supreme Court.   In Dobbs v. Jackson, SCOTUS granted review to a challenge of a Mississippi law prohibiting abortions after 15 weeks. The question before the Supreme Court is whether all pre-viability prohobitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional. In…

Hern joins Dobbs v. Jackson amicus brief

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Representative Kevin Hern (OK-01) officially joined an amicus brief in support of Dobbs v. Jackson, a case headed to the Supreme Court.  In Dobbs v. Jackson, SCOTUS granted review to a challenge of a Mississippi law prohibiting abortions after 15 weeks. The question before the Supreme Court is whether all pre-viability prohobitions on elective abortions…