James Lankford: “as this body knows well, for the past hour, we have had multiple colleagues who have come to this floor to be able to…”

“as this body knows well, for the past hour, we have had multiple colleagues who have come to this floor to be able to talk about how do we make the government more efficient. They have been talking about, out loud, what they are working in their offices on, what their staff are working on, and what we plan to be able to implement. This is a public conversation, but there is a lot of private, behind-the-scenes work because the focus is not just what we talk about. It is what we actually get done. There are a lot of areas of government efficiency that need to get done. This is a target-rich environment. Literally, you can pull out of this building and look in any direction you want to any number of Agencies and get started there. But the focus that we need to have as a body is not what we do to talk about government waste but what are we going to do to get it done. We are looking forward to President Trump's inauguration in a week and a half. We are looking forward to beginning to implement both on the executive branch and through legislative action real changes that can actually get our government toward more efficiency. Now, I have to warn everybody: It is going to take a while because there is a lot to get done. But the good news is, we are not just talking about it; we are actually going to get something started. I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Blackburn). The Senator from Kansas. Remembering Olen Mitchell”