James Lankford

The value system of Facebook seems to be that we want that engagement across and that anger and that attack to each other because that keeps people engaged.

It seems to be a different issue when you talk about the Indian government saying we are requiring our individuals to actually be on your staff.

They have made the statement publicly, 'We do not use that for any other purposes. We just maintain that.'

What I have heard, year after year, from Facebook is, 'That is not really what we do. What we do is interaction.'

This is not some hypothetical, possible thing. This is actually occurring.

The Chinese government obviously doing this with the Uyghurs and what they have done.

The sentiment was to reconcile the issue of citizenship for the Indian Territory Freedmen

The official policy of the Federal Government of the United States ends up pitting African Americans and Native Americans against each other in this terribly unfortunate historic circumstance.

Nothing about me without me. I got it.

Would you be willing to share that information with me? Because obviously as the Senator for Oklahoma, that has direct impact on my State.

The Choctaw Nation does not recognize the Freedmen. That is because of the constitution.

You represent the Freedmen well. You have stayed very knowledgeable on these issues and have stayed tenacious in the process on that.

Mr. Chairman, thank you. Thank you to all of you that are here.

I think it is important to move forward carefully. Measure twice, cut once.

I don't ever want something being worked on or developed as a piece of legislation that has direct and immediate impact on Oklahoma tribes and on the State of Oklahoma and Oklahoma not actually be involved in that.

Is there any action that is currently going on that you or anyone on your team is working on to develop a legislative response to Castro-Huerta or to McGirt?

We want to make sure that sovereignty is respected.

We must ensure that the voices of our tribes are heard and respected in this process.

I applaud two leaders of this Committee, Senators Tina Smith and James Lankford, for their bipartisan introduction.

I was proud to sponsor and help pass into law two Urban Indian Clinic focused bills with Senator Smith.

I would like to first start off by saying thank you to the leadership and to the individuals that serve in the two Oklahoma Urban Indian Clinics.

Does that child in the womb have the right to travel, in their future?

Allow the American people to give feedback to agencies.

There are moments when there is a crime scene that has Federal nexus on it, and you have four or five different agencies all show up.

Our Border Patrol is so overrun that they have stopped doing checkpoints.