James Lankford actually said...

"This is one of the areas I want us to provide more oversight as a committee to be able to ask just the basic questions."

"How do you track, at this point, research that would be done by the public sector and research that would be done only by us?"

"Okay, so FERC first and then DOE, correct? So that has been a quick process. It has not been an issue?"

"Tell me a little bit about how that works, and what I would like to know is, how do you evaluate its effectiveness on how it is actually accomplishing the mission?"