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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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Apr 19, 2015

OK. So by the end of 2016, you will be able to have articulated a plan for that, for identifying the homeless and then doing a count there?

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Apr 15, 2015

Any work that can be done to simplify that form I think is extremely important, for multiple reasons.

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Apr 15, 2015

My hope is that it doesn't set the not-for-profits up for failure by capping the amount for loan servicing for the multiple companies that are doing it.

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Apr 15, 2015

I appreciate your cooperation in trying to get a complete replacement of this so you do not have to deal with the constant waiver battles back and forth.

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Apr 15, 2015

Is there an estimate in your budget somewhere that I'm missing of the cost of developing and sustaining this ratings program?

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Apr 15, 2015

Again, we have to plan on funding. If that is going to be a funding issue in the days ahead, dealing with higher education and court costs, we need to know.

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Apr 15, 2015

There is a tremendous asset to being able to help those students because there are some very unique environments there.

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Apr 14, 2015

The Kaiser Family Foundation has done a tremendous amount of research on all this and has done a very good job of getting the background.

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Apr 14, 2015

And you just articulated three different issues that you need Congress to be able to help with: the W-2 issue, correctable error authority, and simplify the statute, EITC, so there is less gray area, basically that it is more black and…

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Apr 14, 2015

There is a tremendous amount that needs to be done. You have walked into the middle of a lot of chaos with laws that we all have some frustration with, and I appreciate what you are trying to do.

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Apr 14, 2015

The law prohibits employers from reimbursing or otherwise providing financial support to employees to help them pay for an individually purchased plan for these smaller businesses and individuals.

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Apr 14, 2015

We have 300,000 people that apparently received that advance payment that do not have citizenship or do not have documentation for citizenship at this point.

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Apr 14, 2015

Thank you. Commissioner, it is good to see you again. Thanks for the work you are trying to do for the American people and all that is going on.

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Apr 14, 2015

If we have 4 percent of these folks, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, that are receiving the correct subsidy amount up front to know what they are dealing with, we have a major problem that needs to be dealt with.

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Apr 14, 2015

And I would say that is a prime aspect of this Committee, is to be able to determine where we are stuck, let us know what we need to do so we can get it unstuck.

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Apr 14, 2015

So this basically sets up Americans to fail at this point, or it sets them up to where they are going to have to file multiple forms through the year to be able to update pay.

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Mar 25, 2015

That rule has been very, very successful, a 93-percent reduction in silicosis deaths.

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Mar 24, 2015

Is there a need for additional legislation to put timelines on some of the permitting at this point, or where do you stand on that?

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Mar 24, 2015

I want to know how that is going at this point, and if any additional legislation is needed to help expedite the process.

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Mar 18, 2015

We will send some questions to you in the days ahead, if you do not mind.

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Mar 18, 2015

Thank you. Let me ask a question just following up on the same line.

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Mar 18, 2015

One simple way to ensure that the regulatory process benefits everyday Americans is to make sure that individuals have the opportunity to voice their opinions on all proposed regulations and make sure their comments are actually heard.

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Mar 18, 2015

We are supposed to represent our States bringing that message from our States to our own government to say, 'Wait a minute, this does not work in our State.'

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Mar 18, 2015

This is something we have all talked about a lot and that is multiple forms.

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Mar 18, 2015

This is the first hearing in a series of hearings to pursue the issues and solutions surrounding the Federal regulations.

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