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On the recordJuly 15, 2015
Do you feel like you have the authority to be able to step into an agency and say, This is really important, this has to be done, or do you feel like that needs to be someone else or it is just really the agency that is going to make that call on their own?
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James Lankford
Republican · Oklahoma

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Lankford inquires about authority in agency decision-making.

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