James Lankford actually said...

"Because that worked for them."

"I have often said that the definition of the Federal Government ought to be the law of negative unintended consequences."

"We still have areas, in Federal tax law--in means testing and such--where there are marriage penalties."

"Do you think it is because they want a big sample and want to show a large statistic, rather than trying to look at one area and say that it was successful?"