Tom Cole
U.S. Representative from Oklahoma, District 4
Term: 2025-01-03 → 2027-01-03 · Bioguide: C001053
Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee for the 119th Congress. Procedural sponsor of all four FY26 appropriations laws (HR 5371, HR 6938, HR 7148, HR 7147) by virtue of his role as full committee chair. First served in Congress in 2003; previously served as chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee.
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What's worth knowing
As Approps Chair, Cole is the named sponsor on every FY26 appropriations bill — that's structural, not a measure of his policy involvement on any one piece. The actual authors of each piece are the subcommittee chairs (Calvert for Defense, Aderholt for Labor-HHS-Ed, Womack for T-HUD, etc.).
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