“Healthy families make healthy communities make a healthy nation,” said Lankford on the floor. “If dads back away from their families, families get weaker, communities get weaker, the nation gets weaker. If dads are engaged with their kids and with their families, the nation gets stronger. Communities get stronger.”
On the recordJune 21, 2026
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Remarks on the Senate floor about fatherhood and family engagement.
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