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On the recordMarch 28, 2017
What happens if you get to the end, and then you tip over, and you have a government shutdown? He laughed. He said, 'We have a new election the next week, because all of us are out.'
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James Lankford
Republican · Oklahoma

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Lankford shares an international leader's perspective on government shutdowns.

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