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Rep. Stephanie Bice is cosponsoring two bills aimed at helping military service members provide care for young children.
One bill would increase parental leave and the other would expand and modernize child care options. Both are cosponsored by key Democrats on the House and Senate Armed Services Committees.
Bice, R-Oklahoma City, whose district includes many service members and workers at Tinker Air Force Base, said active duty military would get the same 12 weeks of parental leave as civilians under the legislation.
EDMOND, Oklahoma - Sergeant Gerald Dixon started with the Edmond Police Department in 1988. In that time, he’s touched a lot of lives in the Edmond community. Now as he plans his retirement, the department and the city are celebrating what he has meant to so many people.
Dixon has always known he wanted to be a police officer. It started in kindergarten when his teacher’s husband, a police officer, came to speak to his class. At that moment he knew his calling.
U.S. Rep. Stephanie Bice (R-OK) proposed bipartisan legislation that aims to improve postpartum care for members of the United States Armed Forces and their dependents.
“Many of our military systems are created from the male perspective of service,” Rep. Bice said. “Now that more women than ever are joining the military, it’s important that we work to accommodate the needs of new moms and their newborns.”
Oklahoma City – Congresswoman Stephanie Bice (OK-05) released the following statement in response to President Biden’s first address to a joint session of Congress. Due to meetings in Oklahoma’s fifth district, Congresswoman Bice was not able to join in person for the joint session.
Washington, DC – Today, Oklahoma’s Congressional Delegation introduced a resolution in both the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate honoring Jim Thorpe, of the Sac and Fox Nation, and urging the International Olympic Committee to restore his 1912 Olympic records. Lucas introduced the resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives and Inhofe introduced an identical resolution in the U.S. Senate.