Senate President Pro Tempore Greg Treat on Tuesday named four Republicans and two Democrats to sit on the oversight committee of the Legislative Office of Fiscal Transparency (LOFT). LOFT was created this session to give lawmakers better access to information concerning state agency spending.
“In a session marked by achievements like a second-consecutive teacher pay raise and significant new money invested in our classrooms, the Legislative Office of Fiscal Transparency stands out as a huge policy win for Oklahoma. LOFT will increase accountability and transparency of the spending of Oklahomans’ hard-earned tax dollars by providing the public and lawmakers with objective, independent data on agency spending and program performance. The work of LOFT will be overseen by a bipartisan committee of Senate and House members, and the senators I’ve selected for the committee will do a great job guiding LOFT and its work,” said Treat.
Treat named Senators Kim David, Dewayne Pemberton, Frank Simpson, Chuck Hall, Michael Brooks and Julia Kirt as members of the LOFT oversight committee. He named Appropriations Committee Chairman Senator Roger Thompson as the co-chair earlier.
