The Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge will be able to rebuild facilities damaged by the historic 2015 floods in southern Oklahoma, announced the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FSW) on Friday. Congressman Markwayne Mullin (OK-02) and his teams in Oklahoma and Washington have worked closely with state, local, and national officials on recovery and repair efforts at the refuge. Those efforts have paid off. The FWS has announced that $3 million has been allocated for the construction of a new hea... Read more

Congressman Markwayne Mullin (OK-02) on Thursday voted to protect Oklahomans from the unelected bureaucrats in the Obama administration. Mullin’s vote on H.Res. 639 authorized the House Speaker to represent the position of the U.S. House of Representatives in the Supreme Court case that will determine if the president’s plan to grant amnesty to illegal immigrants violates the law. “Congress is the only body in the federal government that is authorized to make laws. The Obama administration has c... Read more

Congressman Markwayne Mullin (OK-02) issued the following statement after President Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland, the Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, as a nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court: “Republicans and Democrats have historically agreed that the president should not select a nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court in a presidential election year. In 1992, then-Senator Joe Biden urged President George H. W. Bush to follow the majority of pr... Read more

Congressman Markwayne Mullin (OK-02) on Thursday met with the Deputy Secretary of the Veterans Affairs Administration (VA), Sloan Gibson, to get an update on the VA’s investigation into quality of care and management issues at the Eastern Oklahoma VA Health Care System. The hospital’s chief of staff, Dr. Thomas Schneider, has been transferred to a VA outpatient clinic in Tulsa pending the conclusion of the investigation. Gibson will return to the Muskogee hospital for another oversight visit wit... Read more

One of the things I love most about Oklahomans is the love and support we show for one another. When our neighbor needs help with his yard, we’re there with the lawnmower. When our friend needs someone to watch their kids, our doors are open. No matter what, Oklahomans always want to take care of people who are in need. And we should, but when it comes to government assistance programs, we need to make sure we are serving individuals who truly qualify for the programs. Today there’s a problem wi... Read more

Congressman Markwayne Mullin (OK-02) announced on Wednesday that farmers in LeFlore and Sequoyah counties may be eligible for federal disaster assistance. On March 2, 2016, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack notified Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson that 13 counties in the state had received primary county disaster designations. Additional counties in Arkansas and neighboring states were designated continuous disaster counties and are also eligible for federal disaster assistance. In Oklah... Read more

Congressman Markwayne Mullin (OK-02) has announced the schedule for his 2016 Veteran Information Days events. The two events will be held on March 24, 2016, in Sallisaw and Durant. Mullin holds his annual Veteran Information Days to give veterans and their families the opportunity to learn more about the resources that are available to them. There is no registration required to attend the events. Representatives from veterans service groups and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will b... Read more

The lawmaking process should be simple: the legislative branch writes the laws, and the executive branch enforces them. But under the Obama administration, the executive branch (which includes most federal agencies) has grown out of control. My team and I wrote and introduced the POWERS Act to keep federal agencies in check. POWERS stands for: Preventing Overreach Within the Executive Rulemaking System. I believe that federal regulations should only be issued when absolutely necessary for the sa... Read more

U.S. Reps. Markwayne Mullin (OK-02) and Steve Russell (OK-05) introduced a bill on Thursday that will give Oklahoma’s military installations the flexibility they need to hire more workers. The bill, the Department of Defense Workforce Flexibility Act of 2016 (H.R. 4687), allows temporary employees within the U.S. Department of Defense to more easily apply for vacant, permanent positions within the department. “The federal government’s red tape has made it difficult for our defense installations ... Read more

Congressman Markwayne Mullin (OK-02) voted on Thursday to protect job creators in Oklahoma from the harmful regulations President Obama has placed on the brick and ceramics manufacturing industry. In Sept. 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a regulation that creates new emissions standards for brick and ceramics manufacturers. The regulation uses an outdated emissions calculation from 2003 as the basis for the new standards, which have created an unworkable financial ... Read more