James Lankford

When you vote you may not know for weeks to months what the final election count is.

I have made fun of other states for years because there's quite a few states around the country that can't seem to figure out how to be able to count.

Chaplains serve because they are called to it. Congress has a responsibility to make sure they can carry out that calling faithfully, without being forced to violate the tenets of their faith and without fear of retaliation for holding to…

For our country’s 250-year history, military chaplains have walked alongside our service members through the hardest moments of their lives, offering prayer, counsel, and hope in isolated posts and combat zones alike.

Oklahoma is home to 39 Tribal Nations, and many of them live and work alongside the men and women who serve at our military installations. When a Tribe is doing work that benefits a military base or post, whether that is roads, utilities…

That basically puts all of us, House and Senate, Republicans and Democrats, to say you can’t do anything but appropriations, and you’re going to stay there until appropriations is done.

Even something as simple as children that wore masks or around adults wearing masks for all that time are slower in learning language now because they couldn’t watch someone’s lips moving.

God creates every child male or female in His perfect image. For too long, taxpayers have been forced to fund sex-rejecting studies on kids.

We must take government shutdowns off the table and force Congress to stay in town until its work is done.

Chairman, really, this is a question for you. And it’s a question to try to figure out how do we get a good answer on this.

The Wuhan Institute of Virology… being, as was noted by many people, the only lab in the world that was doing research like this that had a lower standard of actually their security standards there than many other labs around the world.

If we’re going to fund research and cooperate with you, we’ve got to have certain things from you.

It’s not just our cooperation with Chinese scientists. It’s our acknowledgment that China covered up their data, wouldn’t allow our scientists to be able to come in.

On May 6th, 2020 you wrote, at that time, ‘I had a conversation with Robert Redfield’... ‘This is terrible and needs to be addressed, since on that basis alone there would be far, far more excess deaths from measles among children than…

Amazingly enough, churches and places of worship were forced to be closed down.

Countless families, including my own, watched a loved one die behind glass or through a screen because we couldn’t get access to them.

Federal workers and their families should not suffer when Congress has not finished the yearly appropriations work.

When appropriations is done, then you can go home or move to other subjects.

I want to put the leverage on us, not on federal workers and their families.

This particular proposal puts the pressure on us, not on federal workers.

Sharee Quick is a TSA officer in Las Vegas. During the last shutdown, she showed up to work every day with no pay.

For too long, federal grant programs have felt out of reach for many small and rural law enforcement agencies.

This will prevent a government-wide shutdown, continue critical services and operations for Americans, and hold federal workers harmless while Congress completes appropriations.

We all have to stay here, and it is required in this.

We need to take government shutdowns off the table and force Congress to stay in town until its work is done.