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Tom Cole: “Today we have 48 senators in Oklahoma. 41 of them are…”

Featuring: Tom Cole, Republican | U.S. House Oklahoma, 4th Congressional District

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The Cloakroom with Peter Roskam: Featuring Congressman Tom Cole, R-OK

Published | Video Starts at 31:15

So they've ideologically, they've actually made us more conservative because again, I came from a state we didn't, in the history of Oklahoma, we didn't take the State House until 2004. We didn't take the Senate until 2008. They were very narrowly divided. Today we have 48 senators in Oklahoma. 41 of them are Republicans. Wow. 83 of the 101 in the House. And, and these were people that a generation before were part of the Democratic. You know, most of my life there was only one Republican congressman from Oklahoma. (31:15–31:21)

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Asserts that the majority of Oklahoma's state senators are Republicans.

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