James Lankford
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James Paul Lankford is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Oklahoma since January 2015. A member of the Republican Party, Lankford has focused on issues such as healthcare, government spending, and religious freedom during his time in office. He previously served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011 to 2015, representing Oklahoma's 5th congressional district.
I would be interested to know how that is managed because that is a potential that is sitting out there for individuals' private information.
The concern is you were saying so much has changed in the business world over the last 30 years that we need to return to a rule that we had 30 years ago to catch up with what has happened in the last 30 years.
Correct, but what do they do with it? What limitations do they have with that information?
Thank you. Keep going on that. You all are doing some great work on raising funds and raising awareness and staying engaged in this, and we appreciate it, and we will continue to partner and try to help in what we can do as well.
It is ironic that we have distributed around the world this concept of freedom of religion and disconnect between government and faith, and to say that government does not oppose faith, but now like we are afraid of faith.
As much as we can use current technologies, and allow the public sector to take the lead on that.
I watched my grandmother, and we have all walked through this. My mom currently has Parkinson's.
This is not to belittle them at all, so I am not going to just pick on somebody that is not here.
I would love to see 'freedom of worship' actually shift to 'freedom of religion.'
I disagree with that whole decision, but that is a conversation for another day.
I respectfully suggest that supporting the President's budget request is a very good place to start.
I support the President's budget request for DHS and am pleased that he has recognized the need to provide the Department with an increase in funds.
Does that create opportunities from here on out for the Executive Branch and all agencies to move through the vagaries of every rule
The agency is given forward motion and Congress has basically said, if you want to change the forward motion of this agency, Congress can then go back, pass a law, override a veto of the President
Theoretically, where I have been arguing Congress needs to act, it also is probably not a path forward
It seems to me that where those exist, and there are fewer than they were in the past, those are ripe areas for Congress to consider what the proper procedure is.
What about changing line items of spending, that you could do a consent decree to change line items of spending?
The challenge that I see on this is how to continue to give Congress its legislative powers that are required by the Constitution





