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On the recordDecember 18, 2017
Republicans stepped across the aisle in 2013, met with Democrats, and voted with 78 votes at the beginning of President Obama's term to say we are going to change this and to not do extended debate for all of this.
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James Lankford
Republican · Oklahoma

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Lankford discusses bipartisan efforts to expedite the nomination process for new presidential nominees.

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