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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.

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Nov 4, 2015

Yes, you do not have to take the blame for the previous 40 years.

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Nov 4, 2015

Let us talk about just the rules that are listed as rules.

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Nov 4, 2015

Therefore, we must ensure that agencies undertake retrospective reviews of current regulations.

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Nov 4, 2015

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?

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Nov 4, 2015

It begs the question of how do you select it.

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Nov 4, 2015

At some point an agency says this really needs to be reviewed, and I know it is costly on the economy.

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Nov 4, 2015

Thank you. I apologize for interrupting.

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Nov 4, 2015

Let me ask the process. How did that work through, something that affects a relatively small number of people?

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Nov 4, 2015

The American people are not opposed to a regulatory scheme. They really do want clean food, clean air, clean water.

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Nov 4, 2015

My government is opposed to me rather than helpful to me.

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Nov 4, 2015

OK. That includes what will be reviewed.

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Nov 4, 2015

How long does it take to do a retrospective review?

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Nov 4, 2015

You have to hurry and implement it before Congress changes it midstream.

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Nov 4, 2015

Who sets the Regulatory Agenda? How does that----

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Nov 4, 2015

The challenge is, if you have 676 rules and 14 of them have gone through the review process.

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Nov 4, 2015

I think those are some great examples on what can be done.

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Nov 4, 2015

Retrospective review of regulations is important.

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Nov 4, 2015

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.

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Nov 4, 2015

I think there is a misnomer that people say--they call because they are mad and they do not want government.

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Nov 4, 2015

It is extremely important there is a good filtering process to know which ones are chosen.

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Nov 4, 2015

We will send all of our hard questions by mail.

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Nov 4, 2015

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.

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Nov 4, 2015

The moment that people feel like they work for us rather than we work for them, it is a toxic environment.

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Nov 4, 2015

So the final decision is made where and how? All of this is gathered, all this input.

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