James Lankford actually said...

"It is one thing to talk about it after the fact. It is another thing to try to fix it so it doesn't become such a bureaucratic maze that nothing happens."

"What this has done is for political expediency of the President, to make him look tough, to fight against the allegations that you've been weak in the past."

"The issue still remains though, the day-to-day operation of nuclear safety, and the decisions that you make are significant in this."

"The process was delayed for months while the agencies struggled to find ways, in our opinion, to inject a new criteria to alter the funding process."