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Rep. Kyle Hilbert (R-Bristow) was elected as House speaker pro tem Tuesday.
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Plans call for adding more than 6,000 square feet and several more beds to the OU Health facility. Ten of the new beds would be dedicated to behavioral health emergencies.
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A joint committee heard proposals to spend American Rescue Plan funds on expanding rural broadband access, increasing the number of health care workers in Oklahoma and ramping up workforce training.
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The new map appears to give Republican candidates an advantage in Oklahoma's Fifth Congressional District. It did not get a single Democrat’s vote in the House or Senate.
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The redistricting plan Democrats are panning as gerrymandering to give Republican candidates an advantage in the Fifth District easily passed the Oklahoma House.
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Democrats’ congressional redistricting proposal fell on a party-line committee vote.
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Democrats in the Oklahoma legislature oppose the redistricting plan Republican leaders unveiled two weeks ago, which moves large Hispanic populations in Oklahoma City to a rural district and replaces them with conservative communities.
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Their rhetoric included misleading or false claims about COVID vaccines and the efficacy of masks, as well as repeated comparisons of the present-day United States to the political climate in Germany before the Nazis took control.
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The session is supposed to settle redistricting issues caused by delayed census data, but lawmakers have thrown additional proposals into the mix as well.
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"A Better Path Forward," a new report from OK Policy, proposes a number of tax and budget reforms aimed at fairness, prosperity, improved health, and better education services