James Lankford: “we are in the tenth week of the first 10 weeks, obviously, of this Senate's session. It has been exceptionally…”

“we are in the tenth week of the first 10 weeks, obviously, of this Senate's session. It has been exceptionally productive during this time period. We have not only moved more nominees into confirmation for President Trump than any Senate has done in more than two decades, we have passed bills like the Laken Riley Act, which will absolutely help us in trying to remove criminal aliens out of the country. We have rolled back a lot of Biden's last-minute regulations that he literally threw in in the final hours that did not have the oversight, did not have the appearance. And they, obviously, didn't do it in the first 3\1/2\ years of their term. They stalled it till the very end on that for a reason: because it was unpopular with the American people. Those have been rolled back, many of them, and we still have several to go. Today we are finishing up a bill called HALT Fentanyl. The fentanyl epidemic is raging in our country. If you go back to just 2019 and compare that to 2023, in that short period of time, in my State of Oklahoma in 2019, we had 50 people who died of fentanyl. Fast-forward 4 years to 2023, the last year that we have complete records on; that is actually 730 people died. In 2023, across the country, we had 74,000 Americans who died from fentanyl overdose. Again, go back to 2019. Only about 10 percent of the opioid deaths in my State had fentanyl connected to it.…”