Budget

President’s Budget Builds Strong Future for Veterans Care In Eastern Oklahoma

| Posted in Press Releases

WASHINGTON – This afternoon, President Trump released his 2021 Presidential Budget Request, which identifies his goals and funding priorities for next year. The request includes funding to build a new hospital in Tulsa and is complemented with plans for a major investment in the Muskogee health facility to support a transformative specialty care facility.  These new investments –…

Dynamic scoring: forward-thinking budgeting practices to grow our economy

| Posted in Articles

There’s a lot to consider when looking at a piece of legislation. Good and thoughtful policy is important, but how do we pay for it? Many a great idea has met their doom in Congress because they can’t answer that question. The federal budget is a living, breathing organism. It’s constantly changing and larger than you can wrap your head around. Trillions of federal dollars – that’s 12…

Congressman Kevin Hern: 'This whole argument is really about 2020'

| Posted in In the News

First District Congressman Kevin Hern hasn’t been in Washington long, but he has been there long enough to conclude the current impasse hasn’t all that much to do with policy. “This whole argument is really about 2020,” Hern, who took office in November, told the Tulsa Republican Club on Friday. “It’s unfortunate. Sad. But that’s the politics of what’s going on.” The $5.7 billion…