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James Lankford: “I literally took the exact same language as 2013, removed the sunset, and said this becomes permanent.”

On the recordDecember 18, 2017
I literally took the exact same language as 2013, removed the sunset, and said this becomes permanent.
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James Lankford
Republican · Oklahoma

Editor's note · Context

Lankford proposes making a previous resolution permanent without a sunset clause.

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