WASHINGTON, DC – Republican Study Committee Chairman Kevin Hern (OK-01) released the following statement after President Joe Biden released his FY 2024 budget proposal to Congress.    “The United States faces extreme challenges as a result of unchecked Democrat spending over the last two years,” said Chairman Hern. “Even record-high revenues cannot keep up with… Read more »

Republican Study Committee Chairman Kevin Hern (OK-01) released a list of policy proposals sourced from Members of the Republican Study Committee (RSC) to help accomplish the seven priorities previously announced from RSC for debt limit negotiations. "Every day, we get closer to a debt disaster that has the potential to destroy our nation and life as know it," said Chairman Hern. "We… Read more »

WASHINGTON, DC – Representatives Kevin Hern (R-OK-01) and Mike Thompson (D-CA-04) introduced a bill to the House of Representatives today to increase access to Prescription Digital Therapeutics. Senators Shelley Moore Capitol (R-WV) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) introduced the same legislation in the US Senate.  The Access to Prescription Digital Therapeutics Act of… Read more »

WASHINGTON, DC – Representative Kevin Hern (OK-01) released the following statement after voting YES on HR 347, the Reduce Exacerbated Inflation Negatively Impacting the Nation (REIN IN) Act.    “Inflation continues to be the number one concern for American families, and it has largely been driven by Democrat spending both in Congress and in the White House,” said… Read more »

ICYMI: A clean debt ceiling is a gift to China By Chairman Kevin Hern and Congressman Mark AlfordArticle linked here.The public watched as a Communist Chinese spy balloon traversed nearly the entire continental United States this month, floating freely from Montana to Myrtle Beach before President Joe Biden finally gave the green light for the U.S. military to shoot it down. Biden's… Read more »

The public watched as a Communist Chinese spy balloon traversed nearly the entire continental United States this month, floating freely from Montana to Myrtle Beach before President Joe Biden finally gave the green light for the U.S. military to shoot it down. Biden’s balloon debacle was an important reminder that China will seek to exploit any real or perceived weakness from the U.S. in… Read more »

“The Democrats’ out-of-control spending is running up our debt and hurting our economy”: Hern reacts to new CBO scores   WASHINGTON, DC –Representative Kevin Hern (OK-01) released the following statement regarding the CBO report released today.    “The CBO today confirmed what I have been saying for a long time: the Democrats’ out-of-control spending is running… Read more »

WASHINGTON, DC – Representative Kevin Hern (OK-01) released the following statement after voting YES on H.Res 104, a resolution condemning the Chinese Communist Party’s use of a high-altitude surveillance balloon over United States territory as a brazen violation of United States sovereignty.    “President Biden failed the American people this week when he allowed a spy… Read more »

“Americans don’t want to hear dressed up lies”: Hern reacts to Biden’s State of the Union   WASHINGTON, DC – Representative Kevin Hern (OK-01) released the following statement after President Joe Biden delivered the State of the Union Address to a joint session of Congress.    “President Biden and his White House could not be more out of touch with the American… Read more »

Republican Study Committee Chairman Kevin Hern (OK-01) and RSC Budget and Spending Task Force Chairman Ben Cline (VA-06) led a letter to President Biden this afternoon with members of the Budget and Spending Task Force: Bob Good (VA-05), Roger Williams (TX-25), August Pfluger (TX-11), Ralph Norman (SC-05), Tom Tiffany (WI-07), Beth Van Duyne (TX-24), Byron Donalds (FL-19), Michael Cloud… Read more »