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Tom Cole
@tomcole· Republican · OK· Jun 6, 2017

I want to assure you, you see this is a committee that is a pretty spirited committee.

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Jun 6, 2017

Okay. Walk me through what happens if that is not funded in 2018.

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Jun 6, 2017

It is my hope that during this Congress, we can return to debating and passing individual appropriation bills instead of governing from one Continuing Resolution to another.

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Jun 6, 2017

The good news - bad news on it. Good news is we finally got the appropriations bills done and got that finished. Bad news, it is a very short window with just the rest of this year.

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Jun 6, 2017

Right. Yes, and the Government Publishing Office has experienced that.

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Jun 6, 2017

Obviously, we have to work out the accountability portion and the transparency portion of that as well.

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Jun 6, 2017

The donors also want to know the transparency portion of it, as well as the transparency of this subcommittee.

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Jun 6, 2017

We have not had a problem with smoke and fire in the Capitol before, have we?

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Jun 6, 2017

We should maybe just station the Capitol police and have them watch out for the British on the outside of the building and have that as an extra protection as well.

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Jun 6, 2017

To be brutally honest, the only difference between this place and a drunken sailor is that a drunken sailor stops spending when he runs out of money.

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Jun 6, 2017

It is great politics for some because a lot of the people that are doing all the spending will not be here to have to answer when the bills come due.

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Jun 6, 2017

But as Senator Kennedy said as well, part of the struggle of this subcommittee, not particularly with this subcommittee, but every time there is an increase in spending in one area there is a conversation about cancer research in another.

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Jun 6, 2017

At the end of that time period, do you expect that we will need fewer FTEs, more, or the same based on that modernization?

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Jun 6, 2017

All right. You are also dealing with data center relocation efforts.

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Jun 6, 2017

I do not know how it works in your household, but I cannot do that in my household and most Americans cannot.

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