James Lankford

I am just saying my community banks are going to pay this additional fee.

So, what is your plan to keep large depositors from moving their funds out of community banks into the big banks?

I would love to talk about marriage penalties in the tax code, because, quite frankly, they are still there.

I find that very creative.

I get it, but I am just saying my community banks are going to pay this additional fee.

You are not fully insured if you are in a community bank.

I would love to talk about marriage penalties in the tax code, because, quite frankly, they are still there.

It has been reported publicly that SVB had a large number of Chinese investors...

I am concerned you are about to accelerate that by encouraging anyone who has a large deposit in a community bank to say, 'We are not going to make you whole...'

I think would hurt our energy independence.

I find that very creative.

This is not about TikTok. This is about any app, any electronics that are coming from China.

This sends all the wrong messages on it.

That is completely not acceptable.

The FBI needs to identify on its own--we have great resources--what are the threats?

Many of us on this Committee have traveled, some of us very recently, to the Middle East.

Individuals crossing our southern border that the FBI has interdicted that were coming to assassinate former President Bush not long ago.

This is not about TikTok. This is about any app, any electronics that are coming from China.

That is completely not acceptable.

The FBI needs to identify on its own--we have great resources--what are the threats?

This sends all the wrong messages on it.

Is Iran trying to be able to develop surrogate networks, even into the United States, where they're choosing Hezbollah to advance across different regions?

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard have noted that they are trying to assassinate, for lack of a better term, some American former officials.

Many of us on this Committee have traveled, some of us very recently, to the Middle East.

This is not about TikTok. This is about any app, any electronics that are coming from China.