Honorable Tom Cole
United States Representative, Oklahoma, Republican
Representative Cole, of the Fourth District of Oklahoma, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2002. He served in the Oklahoma Senate from 1988 to 1991. He sits on the Appropriations Committee, where he is Vice Chair of the Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs, and on the Budget Committee. The following is from the December 1, 2011, House floor debate on H.R. 3463, to end taxpayer financing of presidential election campaigns and party conventions and terminate the Election Assistance Commission. The legislation before us actually does three important things: First, it eliminates an antiquated,…
