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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 18, 2013

If the redetermination process doesn't go well, they carry over into adulthood, all the potential of that kid is sapped away.

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Nov 18, 2013

I would have no issue trying to provide that to both sides, and we try to be very fair to be able to provide everybody all the data on it.

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Nov 14, 2013

The President seems to flippantly just talk about 5 percent of Americans have received a cancelation notice, as if they are just individuals that didn't have a policy that really met his standard for what he was looking for or what the…

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Nov 12, 2013

The problem is that you are trying to mitigate on things that you don't know.

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Nov 12, 2013

It is pretty straightforward. I just got to that page and hit the button, it changed colors and did nothing.

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Nov 12, 2013

On day one, Marilyn Tavenner is signing a document saying, there are risks that are out there.

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Nov 12, 2013

I want to say thank you to you as well for what you are doing, because you have made a conscious choice in that.

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Nov 12, 2013

Around 5 million people have received a cancellation letter.

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Oct 30, 2013

The ObamaCare Web site has been a nuisance. People spend hours of wasted time trying to get on it, trying to get information they cannot get information on. This has moved far beyond just a nuisance of trying to get on a Web site. Now…

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Oct 23, 2013

I would like to bring up my support for this bill but also to be able to talk about the limited funds that the Corps of Engineers have. They have very limited funds because the United States of America obviously has limited funds, what we…

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Oct 8, 2013

We would--if we can get--any guess on timing when we get that, because they've asked for months for clarification on that?

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Oct 8, 2013

The administration made the decision, business mandate, we are not going to do it this year...

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Oct 8, 2013

So, right now, the IRS is fully prepared to be able to do what it needs to do?

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Oct 8, 2013

if an employer does not provide healthcare at all to an employee, if an employer provides full healthcare, everything, except some of the things on the preventative services list that's been identified by HHS, that penalty, if I'm reading…

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Oct 8, 2013

So is Treasury notified at some point to stop doing payments?

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Oct 4, 2013

I thank the gentlelady for hosting this time to be able to talk about some of the serious issues. Madam Speaker, I want to bring to our attention tonight something that we're trying to bring up over and over again. It is a simple injustice…

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Oct 2, 2013

I hear from folks all the time--we need to have a reasonable proposal to be able to end this. Well, how about this for a reasonable proposal. There are lot of people that are concerned about the penalties and the effects that are coming…

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Oct 1, 2013

we need to look at these industries who have historically gotten special exemptions, tax breaks, and other subsidies

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Oct 1, 2013

We have the responsibility on this dais to also do budgeting.

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Oct 1, 2013

But that is true, they are going to always be partnered with. They can't be just be a standalone consistent power source.

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Oct 1, 2013

We exist to secure two fundamental principles: First, Americans have the right to know that the money Washington takes from them is well spent.

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Oct 1, 2013

create this sense that the only way American economy is going to move forward, is if we create more green jobs, I think begs the question of--we need to create more jobs, period, to have a growing economy.

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Oct 1, 2013

every one of these industries has a tremendous amount of entrepreneurial risk, and when they take the risk, it pays off for them

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Oct 1, 2013

Some level of continuous--I am assuming they are going to have some kind of level of continuous construction.

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Oct 1, 2013

I think the IRS has done exactly what it should do, which is you, the Congress, didn't give them a specific date.

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