James Lankford

This is a national security issue, as we've identified.

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

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

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

This sends all the wrong messages on it.

That is completely not acceptable.

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, but also trying to develop surrogate networks in the United States right now?

The bill was designed to be energy secure. There is a basic, balanced approach, and I think a lot of people have been misled because--and honestly, the Administration has sold it as an environmental bill only, or they used that more to…

The bill is designed to have the United States of America totally energy independent. That means we will produce more fossil, but we do it cleaner than anywhere in the world.

I think a lot of taxpayers are going to be shocked that part of the American Rescue Plan was, over the course of a year if you do $600 in Venmo transactions, you're now going to have to report that to the IRS.

I think a lot of taxpayers are going to be shocked that part of the American Rescue Plan was, over the course of a year if you do $600 in Venmo transactions, you're now going to have to report that to the IRS.

The IRS was using the power of the IRS to be able to slow down or silence conservative voices.

There were some very specific statements that were made earlier on, on how the money would be spent, that it wouldn't affect anyone with $400,000 or less.

We're waiting to get a plan where not only we can see how it's going to be done, but the American people can also see how that money is going to be spent.

The bill is designed to have the United States of America totally energy independent.

The Administration has sold it as an environmental bill only.

The bill was designed to be energy secure.

I think a lot of taxpayers are going to be shocked that part of the American Rescue Plan was, over the course of a year if you do $600 in Venmo transactions, you're now going to have to report that to the IRS.

There were some very specific statements that were made earlier on, on how the money would be spent, that it wouldn't affect anyone with $400,000 or less, but that actually wasn't put in the statutes to require that.

Obviously, there was a transition of leadership at that time, and you walked into the middle of all that to be able to clean that up.

Cellphones in a prison are a deadly weapon.

The opportunity to provide input is only given to that transgender inmate.

Congress has spoken clearly on this.

But based on this policy, a transgender inmate is given the opportunity to be able to choose.

There are several issues that we have to resolve here, both the disincentive to be able to bring that in.