Tom Cole
Tom Cole
Thomas Jeffery "Tom" Coleis the U.S. Representative for Oklahoma's 4th congressional district, serving since 2003. He is a member of the Republican Party. He is a Deputy Majority Whip. The chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committeefrom 2006 to 2008, he was, during his tenure, the fourth-ranking Republican leader in the House. As of 2015, Cole – a member of the Chickasaw Nation – is one of only two registered Native Americans in Congress...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth28 April 1949
CountryUnited States of America
When I watch a NASCAR race, I watch every aspect of it, ... Especially the way pit crews operate. I admire how organized they are, how synchronized it appears. I explained to the young soldiers that I wanted them to act just like a pit crew and get people checked out in a hurry.
I think the congressional agenda has been more realistic and frankly more limited than Bush's. The Bush presidency has a lot of big ideas, which is generally good thing, but there just is not a lot of legislative follow-through.
If we can do something positive on Katrina relief or immigration reform we'll be fine by the end of the year.
I don't know a lot of Spanish, but I get calls (from other officers) all the time to translate.
I don't know why anybody aspires to the job. It is just a problem job, dealing with problems messy by nature, people at wit's end, crisis situations.
I don't know why anybody aspires to the job,
I know the option of using these trailers will be very helpful for those who need to stay close to their property.
important for the committee and for the House that its actions be viewed as nonpartisan and objective by the members of this institution and by the public.
If you look at some of the most successful people in history, at some point they all failed, but they didn't quit or give up.
He said, 'We're continuing our investigation, but as every day goes by it just seems less and less likely. ... This looked like an individual act,
"Embrace Of The Serpent" has been a big deal for Colombians outside the Amazon. It's been showing continuously there for more than three months. And the Oscar nomination, the film's producer says Colombians are comparing it to having the national team in the World Cup.
The loss of the culture is one of the main reasons Ciro Guerra wanted to tell their story.
The Ocaina and many of the other indigenous peoples of the Amazon were nearly wiped out during the rubber boom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Outsiders came into the jungle, enslaved the tribes to harvest the rubber and killed those that resisted.
Both the old and young Karamakates are portrayed by indigenous men, neither of them professional actors. The old shaman is played by Antonio Bolivar Salvador.