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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 8, 2014

That should have never been on in the first place.

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Apr 8, 2014

But we are still back to the same spot. How are you defining medical improvement?

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Apr 8, 2014

Tough to be able to tell on that, then, 1 or 2 pages.

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Apr 8, 2014

The goal here, again, is to get people back out to work.

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Apr 8, 2014

Our solemn responsibility is to hold Government accountable to taxpayers, because taxpayers have the right to know what they will get from their Government.

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Apr 8, 2014

These are lives and people that we hope to be able to transition back into productive lives for the sake of their children and the sake of the community as a whole and what they bring to society.

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Apr 8, 2014

You hope to get all this together by 2016, but the vocational grid and the other recommendations, get them to complete proposal?

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Apr 8, 2014

If a person could improve, be in the community, be employable if they maintain medication or treatment, or whatever it may be, and they choose not to, you are saying that is not considered?

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Apr 8, 2014

We exist to secure two fundamental principles: first, that Americans have the right to know what Washington takes from them is well spent; second, Americans deserve an efficient, effective Government that works for them.

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Apr 8, 2014

But that is not going to show an increase in why we have more children in the program, aging and all those things, that dynamic.

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Apr 8, 2014

It was the basic principle that George Washington laid out in his farewell address, that every generation should take care of the responsibilities of that generation, rather than pass it on to their child. It is a 200-year-old concept. It…

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Apr 8, 2014

You are right, impairment is not disability.

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Apr 8, 2014

I give you unanimous consent to do another minute.

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Apr 8, 2014

But we are thinking in the next year, the next five years? What are you thinking?

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Apr 7, 2014

One of our recommendations is for the Congress to require it be done by law.

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Apr 7, 2014

It was not designed to demonstrate anything; it was designed to carry over Medicare Advantage passed the election.

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Apr 2, 2014

The frustration is obviously this is a round peg in a square hole at times.

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Apr 2, 2014

The mess that surrounds all this in the law, and trying to execute a law that has many, many complicating and conflicting parts of it is a major issue.

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Apr 2, 2014

We do not have expanded Medicaid, but we did have coverage there already with our Insure Oklahoma program.

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Apr 2, 2014

Our solemn responsibility is to hold Government accountable to taxpayers.

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Apr 2, 2014

Americans deserve an efficient, effective Government that works for them.

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Apr 2, 2014

I would only say one thing with that. In my State we also have that. Some of those individuals were covered by our Insure Oklahoma program prior to that, and they lost it.

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Apr 2, 2014

Let’s just remember all the false claims that have been made about the Affordable Health Care Act.

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Apr 2, 2014

Americans have the right to know the money Washington takes from them is well spent.

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