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.
Therefore, we must ensure that agencies undertake retrospective reviews of current regulations.
Then the final decision, let us say you have 50 things in the bucket at that point, and you determine we have only got the bandwidth to be able to do five of these. Where is that final decision made?
At some point an agency says this really needs to be reviewed, and I know it is costly on the economy.
Let me ask the process. How did that work through, something that affects a relatively small number of people?
The American people are not opposed to a regulatory scheme. They really do want clean food, clean air, clean water.
The challenge is, if you have 676 rules and 14 of them have gone through the review process.
Because like I said, it has been years that this has been an issue, but it was philosophically the top saying we have to redress this.
I think there is a misnomer that people say--they call because they are mad and they do not want government.
It is extremely important there is a good filtering process to know which ones are chosen.
OK. If a rule like this, when it was first promulgated, had a deadline to say at some point we have to review this again--I do not mean a deadline to go away, but I mean a deadline that at that spot we need to review it.
The moment that people feel like they work for us rather than we work for them, it is a toxic environment.
So the final decision is made where and how? All of this is gathered, all this input.





