US Congressman Kevin Hern called into our Bartlesville Radio Studios on Thursday for our monthly podcast. The Congressman first addressed how the U.S. economy’s GDP  shrunk by 1.4% in the first quarter. According to Hern, in addition to other economic and inflationary pressures, diesel prices are now the highest they have ever been in America. Congressman Hern said the southern… Read more »

American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten was ripped on Wednesday for a lack of self-awareness after remarking on the negative impact school closures have had on kids in light of her union's push for remote learning throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.   In her introductions for her guests at the AFT-hosted "Social Media is Having Negative Effects on Kids and… Read more »

The head of the second-largest teachers' union in the U.S. has been mocked for lamenting the damage from two years of remote learning - a policy which she promoted. Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, on Tuesday hosted a Facebook Live discussion entitled: 'Social Media is Having Negative Effects on Kids and Teens.' Weingarten, 64, began by noting… Read more »

Representative Kevin Hern (OK-01) co-led a bipartisan letter with Democrat Rep. Brad Schneider (IL-10) and nine additional members of the House Committee on Ways and Means to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.  The letter highlights the Members’ concerns with Treasury’s final Foreign Tax Credit regulations and urges Sec. Yellen to continue working with companies and stakeholders to… Read more »

FIRST LOOK: A bipartisan group of 10 House tax writers is urging the Treasury Department to be more open to business concerns about final foreign tax credit regulations released late last year. The 10 lawmakers told Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen that they appreciated that foreign tax credits, in which companies can get a tax break for income taxes paid to other countries, are a… Read more »

Members of Congress urged the Treasury Department to be “mindful” of how new rules on foreign tax credits could hurt U.S. companies, and to work with them in implementing the much-criticized rules. Treasury should issue guidance to help companies apply the new rules, and “continue its engagement with industry to inform its understanding of the potential downstream impacts,” the… Read more »

Representative Kevin Hern (OK-01) released the following statement in response to today’s report that the United States’ Gross Domestic Product (GDP) shrank at a 1.4% annual rate during the 1st Quarter of the 2022 Fiscal Year. “This is the Biden economy,” said Rep. Hern.  “After 14 months of aggressive spending and a dwindling economy, there is no one left… Read more »

Representative Kevin Hern (OK-01) sent a letter with members of the Oklahoma, Arkansas and Kansas Congressional delegations to the Office and Management and Budget and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers urging them to prioritize and commit additional funding to the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System (MKARNS).  Led by Senator Jim Inhofe (OK), other signers on the letter… Read more »

Inflation has soared during President Biden's time in office, leaving many Americans paying more for essential items.  Inflation rose to 8.54% in March from 7.57% in February, having skyrocketed throughout Biden’s first year in office. Economists have pointed to Biden's signature multi-trillion dollar spending package as one of the drivers of inflation. Inflation is the rate at… Read more »

U.S. Congressman and Arkansas Tech University alumnus Kevin Hern returned to his alma mater on Wednesday, April 20, and shared his life story as an example of the American dream come true. "America is about opportunity," said Hern. "Chase your American dream. No matter where you came from, you can achieve anything you want to work hard enough to do. It doesn't matter where you went to… Read more »