James Lankford actually said...

Our solemn responsibility is to hold Government accountable to taxpayers.

Lankford stresses the committee's duty to ensure government accountability.

11/15/2011

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the move has been to make these agencies structurally independent from Congress, and that is very dangerous.

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

So I am back to the same issue.

Independent regulatory agencies should be held to the same procedural standards as executive branch agencies.