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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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Mar 22, 2023

I cannot figure out how it gains market access and how it is an FTA.

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Mar 22, 2023

The patient has to care. You have to connect the patient to the price.

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Mar 22, 2023

I get that, but there are probably not kids' names in the report; but thank you.

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Mar 22, 2023

There are 85,000 children that HHS lost immediate contact with once they were placed in sponsorship.

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Mar 22, 2023

I get that, but there are probably not kids' names in the report; but thank you.

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Mar 22, 2023

When I ask people about how quickly can we get drugs out of China, ... they talk in decades, not in year.

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Mar 22, 2023

The patient has to care. You have to connect the patient to the price.

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Mar 22, 2023

Every life is worthy of protection, born or unborn.

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Mar 22, 2023

These are the unaccompanied minors. The New York Times published this report that was pretty horrific about labor.

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Mar 22, 2023

One of the proposals I have had is instead of only having 10 percent of the public allowed to have it legally, let everybody that has insurance, or does not have insurance, have an HSA.

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Mar 22, 2023

If this body wants more American and closer-to-home production, reinstitute the Puerto Rico tax break.

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Mar 22, 2023

Veterans deserve better, and we should not be reliant on a supply chain that is that tenuous.

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Mar 22, 2023

I agree somewhat with Senator Blumenthal, the description of the problem is much easier than the actual availability of the answer.

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Mar 22, 2023

It cannot work worse than the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) model that we currently have.

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Mar 22, 2023

I think you need to have that in place because as Liza has indicated--and I have many examples that I can share with the Committee--the classification system has been repeatedly misused to conceal those very kinds of things.

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Mar 22, 2023

If we had international competition it helps to keep our prices down, but it also would help to keep the supply up as well.

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Mar 22, 2023

I think you have heard bipartisan--we want to continue to stay engaged through the administration, to be able to work on free trade agreements.

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Mar 22, 2023

We just have to get government as much out of the way and allow more capitalism.

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Mar 22, 2023

If we had international competition it helps to keep our prices down, but it also would help to keep the supply up as well.

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Mar 21, 2023

If we had international competition it helps to keep our prices down, but it also would help to keep the supply up as well.

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Mar 21, 2023

We did, once upon a time, have huge tax breaks in Puerto Rico. It was a 100 percent tax credit.

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Mar 21, 2023

We currently are one of the worst countries in the world for research and development (R&D), based on our current tax policy.

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Mar 21, 2023

I call them economic freedom zones.

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Mar 21, 2023

If we do not fix our tax policy and incentivize manufacturing to actually be here rather than punishing people to do manufacturing here, we are in trouble.

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Mar 21, 2023

The New York Times published this report that was pretty horrific about labor, but this is not new.

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