Press Releases
May 11, 2022
Washington, D.C. – Today, Representative Stephanie Bice’s bill, H.R. 5324, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Weather Radio Modernization Act, passed the U.S. House of Representatives. This legislation directs NOAA to address the outdated technology currently in use throughout its weather radio system. In addition, it provides funding for stations that serve areas that have little or no reliable quality cell phone service, ensuring that these areas receive adequate support to maintain existing systems relating to weather alerts, such as earthquakes, avalanches, chemical releases, or tornadoes. Lastly, this legislation establishes a modernization initiative for broadcasts to transition to IP-based communications and develop options for backup capabilities and enhanced signal transmission. This bill paves the way for future development and provides failsafe options, so the National Weather Radio (NWR) is never down for an extended period and outages will be less frequent.
May 9, 2022
Washington D.C. – Representative Stephanie Bice and more than 170 Republican colleagues sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas demanding answers from the Department of Homeland Security regarding the establishment of its Disinformation Governance Board.
April 26, 2022
Washington, D.C. – On Wednesday, April 6, 2022 Rep. Stephanie Bice introduced legislation to rename the post office at 120 E. Oak Ave. in Seminole, Oklahoma after Army Sgt. Bret D. Isenhower. Isenhower grew up in Seminole, Oklahoma, graduating from Seminole High before attending East Central University. He served tours in Iraq and Afghanistan before being killed in action. Isenhower was posthumously granted several awards, including a Purple Heart, Bronze Star medal, Oklahoma Meritorious Service medal, and a Global War on Terrorism Medal. This legislation has the support of the entire Oklahoma House Delegation. Senators James Lankford (R-OK) and Jim Inhofe (R-OK) introduced the companion bill in the United States Senate earlier this month.
April 13, 2022
Washington, DC – April 13, 2022....Congressional members of the Arkansas and Oklahoma delegations today released the following statements after Canoo, a high-tech advanced mobility company with announced headquarters in Northwest Arkansas and factories in Oklahoma, was officially chosen by NASA to produce vehicle transport for astronauts during the future Artemis mission to the Moon.
April 7, 2022
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.
April 5, 2022
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Stephanie Bice (OK-05) questioned Secretary Austin and General Milley in the House Armed Services Committee hearing on the Fiscal Year 2023 defense budget.
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March 30, 2022
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.
March 28, 2022
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.
March 17, 2022
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).
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March 16, 2022
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.