James Lankford actually said...

"Congress created them. They are not independent of Congress' oversight by far."

"Cost benefit analysis, as several of you have brought up, is to inform rather than to check the box and to justify."

"we are going to continue to over-delegate responsibility, I think, to executive and independent agencies."

"That will help us. We want to get a look at some of those analytics and see how things are evaluated so we can also participate just in that conversation, just as good stewards with it."