Last week, Congress passed H.R. 133, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, providing coronavirus relief and federal appropriations until Sept. 30, 2021. The bipartisan, bicameral package included a number of important priorities.
Key priorities included in the Consolidated Appropriations Act include:
RAMP-UP Act:
It’s simple: When you step into your doctor’s office or go to the hospital for a routine service or procedure, you should know the cost. Unfortunately, however, too many patients are left in the dark regarding their bill.
The lack of price transparency for medical pricing in the United States causes fear and headaches for many families needing care.
To the Editor:
On behalf of my leadership who I’ve copied, thank you so much for your kind e-mail. Honestly, it all comes back to the community - so thank you and Mayor White for being such amazing ambassadors for El Reno. You have some amazing city leaders and members, and we appreciate working with you all as well as Shana Ford, Karen Nance, Ali Hernandez and Steve Maddox, to name a few.
For too long, Oklahoma has tried to diversify its economy by passing special-interest tax breaks and subsidies. That bureaucrat planning has failed.
It doesn’t have to be this way if lawmakers embrace the policies that are reaping job growth in other states — and elimination of the state income tax, the penalty on work, is the most obvious tool for success.
In the present year of COVID-19, tyrannical governors shut down religious services, a First Amendment right, as fast as they could.
During the summer months, Antifa defaced and with ropes tore down statues of our past national heroes including those who made America free, as for example, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, and they even threatened to destroy statues of Christ.
They also set afire churches, one, St. John’s Episcopal, located near the White House. In these states there is definitely developing hostility against the Constitution and liberty.
Joe Biden says he will name radical abortion activist Xavier Becerra as his Health and Human Services secretary. Becerra is more than just an ardent supporter of abortion — he is actively trying to put David Daldein and Sandra Merritt in prison for exposing the Planned Parenthood abortion businesses sale of body parts from aborted babies.
Though Becerra, like Biden, claims to be Catholic, his record involving the lives of unborn babies and those who work to protect them is terrible.
Walter E. Williams, prolific author, piercing cultural commentator, old school economist (that’s a good thing), devoted husband, loving father and longtime friend of Grove City College has passed from this world.
A few weeks before the 2020 election, I visited a local gun shop. It was a madhouse. Weapons flew off the shelves as fast as customers could get their wallets out.
Ammunition was in short supply too. Why? Well, on the front door, a flier warned that, if elected, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris would act quickly to push “gun control” legislation through Congress.
“Panic buying” before a big election, just in case, is the norm. That means booming business for gun dealers, but there’s just not much reason for gun owners or would-be gun owners to worry.
With all the attention commanded by the presidential campaign, election and aftermath, plus the ongoing COVID-19 story, many other issues have faded into the background.
Though escaping the headlines, some of these other issues will be with us for a long time, and contributions to the public discussion of such issues will often have a long-term impact.
Oklahoma set a record for COVID-19 hospitalizations last week, and the United States reached a grim milestone of more than 250,000 coronavirus deaths.
After earlier surges in the spring and summer, the country is now in the midst of the feared fall coronavirus surge and we’re peering into the darkness that winter will bring. With more than 1,500 Oklahomans now hospitalized and new positive cases averaging more than 2,600 per day, it’s time for Oklahoma to act.
On Nov. 17 and 18, Oklahoma reported COVID-19 daily records for hospitalizations, ICU patients and deaths.
