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Governor Mary Fallin was not at the State Capitol Monday. She said she’s standing behind the lawmakers' plan.
The state legislature ended the week with very little movement toward solving the budget crisis. And it costs taxpayers about $30,000 every time lawmakers gavel in for special session.
Addiction programs are still at risk to be cut despite a bill passing that could raise $50 million toward the budget shortfall.
Hundreds of thousands of Oklahomans will be impacted if the state cuts outpatient mental health and substance abuse services.
A proposal by a newly formed caucus of Republican legislators at the state capitol has received backlash after they suggested rounding up more tens of thousands of students to be screened for deportation.
A state representative has been accused again of Islamophobia after it was discovered he was handing out a quiz to Muslim constituents before allowing them into his office.
After seeming to advocate that Hillary Clinton should be put in front of a firing squad, Rep. John Bennett (R-Sallisaw) laughed off questions of criticism calling the post, "barracks talk."
In a hearing about an interim study on radical Islam, Sharia law and the Muslim Brotherhood, state Rep. John Bennett attacked the religion of Islam as an enemy of Oklahomans.
The state's senators celebrated Friday afternoon after the end of a session filled with controversy.
