James Lankford

It is exceptionally beneficial to us to not be dependent on a communist nation like China for our rare earths

I have worked extensively on trying to be able to get access to retirement money for an emergency fund without a tax penalty in the process.

But you have to also get access to those dollars so that people do not pay a 10-percent tax penalty if they have to get to it.

I want to incentivize more people to be able to save for retirement, but I also want to reduce the penalty that people pay if they have to pull that out.

I think the U.S. is not doing enough on thinking about, not just how do we create the best ideas in the world, we already do that, to a certain extent, but how do we become the people who put them into the market first.

We are not just sharing information, but we are also not exporting information to other folks like China, that want to be able to steal that information.

We need to prioritize vaccine distribution in Native communities.

In Oklahoma, in particular, in the distribution that has happened to Native locations across my State, they have been extremely efficient in getting the vaccine out.

There is a lot going on, to say the least.

The penalty and higher tax rates would reduce the value of the foreign operations in the hands of U.S.-headquartered companies.

Don't these proposals threaten our global competitiveness and give U.S. headquartered companies a disadvantage both abroad and here at home?

To get to zero emissions by 2050, does anyone have a good idea how many facilities we would have to build by 2050?

So are we talking a thousand? Are we talking a thousand that would have to be built by then?

Yes, so even in January, you thought you could still make that up.

I have to say most of the time when I get into this conversation, it is because they are in their side and you are in yours.

But at $16 billion, we have to find a way to be able to find some efficiency between the two.

Clearly, our State will not be able to make our constitutional responsibility to be able to redraw districts.

The first set of data released by the Bureau, the apportionment count, which is a tally of all individuals in the country, has not been delivered.

Despite the exceptional challenges faced by the Census Bureau in the last year, I am pleased to see that 99.9 percent of the country was enumerated.

The apportionment deadline, as I am seeing, you are about 3 months behind on getting that collective from where your original targets are.

This is exceptionally important. It is one of the issues that we do not just deal with 5 minutes every 10 years.

Individual contractors and certification of those contractors, of what they have to achieve and then accountability for those contractors when they fail to achieve those

The challenge is the vulnerability here as we walk through this, because had FireEye not found this...

I think it is just one of many solutions that we could look at across the board.

Zero risk has a lot of emotional damage on a lot of families, and a lot of individuals in their isolation.