James Lankford actually said...

"Is there a need to get some sort of definition and to get some sort of clarity on those?"

"It is fascinating to me, the number of times that I will talk to an agency, and they will tell me, 'This does not affect a small business because this is only a regulation that was designed for larger..."

"until we actually in the Federal Government sit down and have a conversation with our counterparts in State and local government, we will not tackle the problem of overregulation."

"It does not have the authority to write governmentwide rules to define those terms."