OKLAHOMA — Republican Congressman Steve Russell takes a break from meet and greets to join the Flashpoint panel. Russell talks about keeping our rights during mass shootings likes San Bernardino. He also mentions that politicians are just as concerned about gun laws as the everyday citizen, so they discuss background checks and other variables in purchasing firearms. The FBI says the San Bernardino shooters were radicalized. Russell talks about his disagreements with allowing ISIS to have open c...
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Today the House of Representatives debated and voted on H.R. 511 – the Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act. HR 511 amends the National Labor Relations Act to provide that any enterprise or institution owned and operated by an Indian tribe and located on its lands does not fall under the jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). This legislation is intended to preserve tribal sovereignty and provide statutory clarity with respect to NLRB jurisdiction over tribal enterprises. Congressman...
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Today, Congressman Steve Russell (OK-5), a member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, continued his tradition of examining questionable spending practices with the third edition of Waste Watch. Like the previous two publications, the October edition focuses on ten examples of government spending that may have been well-intentioned, but ended up wasting taxpayer funds. Some notable instances of federal mismanagement from Waste Watch No. 3 include the nearly half a billion dollars s...
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Today, Congressman Steve Russell (OK-5), a member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is proud to release the second edition in his Waste Watch series. The July edition continues the pattern of highlighting ten instances where the federal government, despite what were perhaps good intentions, spent taxpayer funds in an unwise fashion. Some notable instances from Waste Watch No. 2 are the VA hospital that will cost five times its initial price estimate (more than the tallest “ultra...
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