Press Releases

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Stephanie Bice (R-OK) introduced the bipartisan IRS Customer Service Modernization Act along with the support of Representatives Rogers (R-AL), Meijer (R-MI), and McCormick (D-FL). This legislation would require the Secretary of Treasury to create an action plan within 60 days of enactment to complete the following: quarterly goals and benchmarks to allow zero backlog by Dec. 31, 2023, technical upgrades to improve processing times of tax returns, strategy to improve recruitment and retention rates at the IRS, improving taxpayer in-person meeting access to the Taxpayer Advocate Service and IRS, rapid identification of math errors and immediate notification of the taxpayer, and technological improvements to the IRS website for more efficient customer service. As of Dec. 31, 2021, there were still 6 million unprocessed individual returns, and in FY21, the IRS only responded to 11% of the 282 million phone calls by a customer service representative.

Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Stephanie Bice (OK-05) joined Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business this morning to discuss the unprovoked attack on Ukraine and President Biden's lack of defense spending in his Fiscal Year 2023 budget.

Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Stephanie Bice (OK-05), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, and Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04), a member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, joined in sending a letter to Pentagon officials related to Tinker Air Force Base’s forthcoming B-21 depot maintenance campus.

Washington, D.C. – The bipartisan leadership of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees, Representatives Adam Smith (D-Wash.) and Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC), and Senators Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), today announced their appointments to the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology, which was established by Sec. 1091 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22).

Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Stephanie Bice (OK-05) introduced H.R. 7083, the Make Russia Pay Act, a bill that would establish a “Ukrainian Humanitarian Aid Fund” at Treasury into which seized Russian assets (physically in the US, or denominated in US dollars) would be liquidated and transferred. Russia’s own central bank had about $100 billion of reserves held in U.S. dollars according to the most recent available data released in January, 2022. Treasury would then be authorized to disburse funds directly to Ukraine to provide assistance to its citizens, to rebuild destroyed infrastructure, and to purchase needed defense articles. The fund would also provide assistance to the many EU nations like Poland that have taken in millions of refugees fleeing Ukraine.

Washington, D.C. – Representative Stephanie Bice (OK-05) joined Representative Scott Franklin (FL-15) in introducing the Prohibiting Oil Trade with Venezuela’s Tyrant Act, which would require the president to prohibit the importation of all petroleum products originating from Venezuela. The bill was developed in response to reports that the Biden Administration discussed loosening sanctions on Venezuela’s Máduro regime.