We will continue working to pass this bill and take action at the federal level to protect Jewish Americans.
James Lankford
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James Paul Lankford is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Oklahoma since January 2015. A member of the Republican Party, Lankford has focused on issues such as healthcare, government spending, and religious freedom during his time in office. He previously served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011 to 2015, representing Oklahoma's 5th congressional district.
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August 19, 2026
It costs nearly four cents to make a penny that is worth one cent. That is not a good use of taxpayer dollars.…
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by number of sources- The Prevent Government Shutdowns Act ends government shutdowns forever with a simple idea: if Congress doesn't do its job, Congress doesn't get to go home.2 sources2026hassan.senate.gov
- Jay Clayton is a great pick for the Director of National Intelligence. The US Attorney’s Office in the southern district of New York has prosecuted terrorists, international cartels, money laundering, international trafficking and more. He has handled some of the toughest international cases, and he knows well the threats our nation faces each day. His background as the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission has also given him the executive experience needed to lead an agency in desperate need of reorganization.2 sources2026dailycaller.com
- In Oklahoma, we believe parents know what’s best for their kids, including what school fits their family’s faith.2 sources2026lankford.senate.gov
- Every person has inherent worth and dignity, including those facing their final days.2 sources2026theguardian.com
- If you lose your job, the government shouldn’t tell you the only way forward is to go work for somebody else. Some folks have a business idea they’ve been dreaming about for years, and losing a job might be the push to finally chase it.2 sources2026coons.senate.gov
- God creates every child male or female in His perfect image. For too long, taxpayers have been forced to fund sex-rejecting studies on kids.2 sources2026cruz.senate.gov
Our bipartisan Jewish American Security Act will take important steps to protect Jewish Americans where they are targeted – on campus, in their communities, and online.
We’re faced with nothing less than a crisis, and we need collective action.
This report shows the dark reality for Jewish Americans: antisemitic attacks make up more than 62 percent of religiously-motivated hate crimes in the United States, more than double all other kinds of religiously-motivated hate crimes…
Year after year, we’ve seen alarming rates of antisemitic harassment and violence in this country.
For decades, Iran has used Hezbollah to destabilize Lebanon, Israel, and threaten Americans who live in the region, but President Trump has created a real opening for change by bringing Israel and Lebanon to the table for the first direct…
When you vote you may not know for weeks to months what the final election count is.
This shouldn't be controversial. This should just be something to build trust in our elections.
For our country’s 250-year history, military chaplains have walked alongside our service members through the hardest moments of their lives, offering prayer, counsel, and hope in isolated posts and combat zones alike.
Chaplains serve because they are called to it. Congress has a responsibility to make sure they can carry out that calling faithfully, without being forced to violate the tenets of their faith and without fear of retaliation for holding to…
I have made fun of other states for years because there's quite a few states around the country that can't seem to figure out how to be able to count.
Oklahoma is home to 39 Tribal Nations, and many of them live and work alongside the men and women who serve at our military installations. When a Tribe is doing work that benefits a military base or post, whether that is roads, utilities…
That basically puts all of us, House and Senate, Republicans and Democrats, to say you can’t do anything but appropriations, and you’re going to stay there until appropriations is done.
Even something as simple as children that wore masks or around adults wearing masks for all that time are slower in learning language now because they couldn’t watch someone’s lips moving.
We must take government shutdowns off the table and force Congress to stay in town until its work is done.
God creates every child male or female in His perfect image. For too long, taxpayers have been forced to fund sex-rejecting studies on kids.
It’s not just our cooperation with Chinese scientists. It’s our acknowledgment that China covered up their data, wouldn’t allow our scientists to be able to come in.
On May 6th, 2020 you wrote, at that time, ‘I had a conversation with Robert Redfield’... ‘This is terrible and needs to be addressed, since on that basis alone there would be far, far more excess deaths from measles among children than…
Amazingly enough, churches and places of worship were forced to be closed down.
Countless families, including my own, watched a loved one die behind glass or through a screen because we couldn’t get access to them.
Chairman, really, this is a question for you. And it’s a question to try to figure out how do we get a good answer on this.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology… being, as was noted by many people, the only lab in the world that was doing research like this that had a lower standard of actually their security standards there than many other labs around the world.
If we’re going to fund research and cooperate with you, we’ve got to have certain things from you.





