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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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Jul 15, 2015

That seems a get outside of that 20-year window we were talking about.

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Jul 15, 2015

That is our thought as well, is that maybe there is a need to codify some of these things because it is a possibility that someone may be elected that does not----

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Jul 15, 2015

So what happens when SECRETARY or the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) or some other independent agency is working on a rule and you have other banking rules that are happening simultaneously?

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Jul 15, 2015

Did you set an actual date like that?

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Jul 15, 2015

Is the standard then for the review of a rule, if they get a lot of complaints or a lot of praise?

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Jul 15, 2015

If there is not coordination, how do we get that if they are not included in this conversation with OIRA?

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Jul 15, 2015

But if the benefits are not for 20 years or for 30 years, I think that is the heart of Senator Enzi's question.

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Jul 15, 2015

You might want to check on some of the regulations coming down in the coal industry then because that has been a pretty rapid acceleration, some of the call issues and the number of jobs that have been lost on that one.

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Jul 15, 2015

So you are saying that of all 25 candidates for President out there, you are confident that all 25 of them will continue the same process?

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Jul 15, 2015

We do not have to do that on a cost-benefit analysis on something that was very significant and it ends up being a very costly rule at the end of the day.

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Jul 14, 2015

The challenge here is the Department of Interior is managing both juvenile justice and criminal justice in Indian Country, educational issues, health care issues, mineral rights issues, and water issues.

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Jul 14, 2015

In my State of Oklahoma, the Sac and Fox Nation runs a juvenile program.

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Jul 14, 2015

There are 566 tribes nationwide, and there are some success stories and some places to be able to replicate these things.

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Jul 8, 2015

I do not mind paying taxes, I just do not want you to waste my money.

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Jul 8, 2015

If we could somehow figure out how to do something close to comprehensive immigration reform, we would save hundreds of billions of dollars and our GDP would grow, as well.

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Jul 8, 2015

One-point-eight million new jobs created and GDP to grow by 1.5 percent a year annually and that is worth doing, and it is also worth paying for, as well.

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Jul 7, 2015

We absolutely need encrypted technology because we are very exposed.

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Jul 7, 2015

It does require a legislative fix.

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Jul 7, 2015

Yes. Right. Yes, that part I understand.

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Jul 7, 2015

We've got to have some kind of balance in the conversation.

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Jul 7, 2015

That would be very helpful not only for the State, but for the Nation as well.

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Jul 7, 2015

This is the latest technological battle we're going to deal with.

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Jul 7, 2015

Okay. So I'm really talking the step before that then, and that's where you're not talking about now, that social media side of that.

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Jun 24, 2015

the best thing that we can do is to be able to get our technology up to speed so that we have fewer instances like this

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Jun 24, 2015

This will be settled somewhere around June 25, there will be a decision up here one morning on the website.

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