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On the recordFebruary 10, 2022
I really believe you can tell a lot about an administration's priorities based on the people that they put in place in each location. And that is true for every administration. There are more than 300 million Americans. Many of them are passionate about serving our Nation. We have many great Federal employees who spend their entire life serving our Nation. So there are a lot of individuals to be able to choose from to be able to put in different administration roles, but their background tells you a lot about what the priority is and the purpose is. For instance, I would say Xavier Becerra, who is leading HHS, who has no healthcare background at all, who is an attorney now leading our Nation's healthcare focus--the major issue for him: He was the most vocal proponent of abortion while he was in Congress. While he was attorney general in California, he was an activist pushing abortion in every single country--even suing other States when they limited abortion as the attorney general of California. He was an activist about abortion. He would increase abortions in America. That was a major reason he was put in that spot with HHS. Why else would you put an activist attorney leading our Nation's healthcare area? You can say the same thing with some of the major nominations that have come in for DOJ: Kristen Clarke, Vanita Gupta. Both of them are outspoken proponents of the ``defund the police'' movement, and now they are actually in the Department of Justice.…
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James Lankford
Republican · Oklahoma
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Feb 10, 2022

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