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 like to follow up on what Senator Mikulski was just talking about, because that is my same line of questions, as well.
we appreciate very much what you do and the folks that are on the street and individuals that literally lay down their life for our country
I have a philosophical statement that I want to make, and want to be able to get from you.
Yet, you advocate for increased deficit spending in fiscal year 2016 over current law, stating that breaking the budget caps is vital to our national and economic security.
the change in Cuba policy seemed to be connected to, this is foreign, and so it's allowable.
The foreign affairs exception to the Administrative Procedure Act is only for those 'affairs' which so affect relations with other governments that the public rule making provisions would clearly provoke definitely undesirable…
One other thing I just want to be able to chat about as well are the IG reports.
I would like to have that document just to be able to see, so we get some clarity of who has what lane.
we can't lose the focus on drug and gang violence that is happening in the United States...
But part of the issue for us, as well, as we deal with the budget issues, we appreciate very much what you do...
When you actually try to do a review in real time, now you have real information, the cost goes up dramatically.
I had a company that approached me that said they did not notify an agency last year that they had nothing to report.
Multiple universities I talked to last week are very concerned about some of the new regulations.
We need some way that is constructive and technological at this point to handle the volume of complaints and collate them so we can see patterns.
But, back to Dr. Mandel's comments, that is an agency that they have State individuals that are watching for it all the time.
The nine most feared words in the English language are, 'I am here from the government and I am here to help.'
We want to multiply and elevate the folks that are doing a good job with it.





