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A volunteer with the Oklahoma chapter of Moms Demand Action is advocating for gun safety after separate incidents involving kids and firearms led to the death of two people in Tulsa in the last couple of months.
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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.