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.
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.
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.
There are about the same number of ethics issues in both parties. But when you're the majority party you get disproportionately more scrutiny.
We signed on 101 new members, and they were all from Hopkinsville.
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,
Neither one of these guys can put the other guy away.
We're looking in the crystal ball. We're moving into an area where we don't know what will happen.
I was told not to go to Madison Square Garden anymore and many of these things are unheard of if you're in wrestling. They blackballed me out of the company.
really went out of his way to establish that, I think, because he knows there's a legitimate concern and he doesn't want people who are innocent of any wrongdoing to be suspected of any wrongdoing.
It is like everytime I got the WWF into a legal situation I won hands down, and if I can take anything away from this that makes me feel really good.