James Lankford

How do we get a good balance between what the Administration already has authority to do and what the Administration does not have authority?

All right. Jeh Johnson spent a lot of time with this Committee going through DHS and the restructuring and the requests.

When I go through the list, I go back to business perspective in the past and remember a very old term, the big, hairy, audacious goals (BHAG), and that is really what I see this, as the list of the big, hairy, audacious goals.

I do not see how anybody could really be opposed at least to the effort.

I hope we can get support. I hope we can get this thing signed into law.

We're not going to walk away from the Palestinian people. But, clearly, the UNRWA model is not working.

From a grateful nation that sees a lot of the issues that are happening around the world.

So, it is our great frustration, as you know well, that we've worked with several of these social media platforms, and they saw things and were taking in ads that were election related.

We do need to deal with the obvious threats that are coming at our Nation dealing with elections.

It is the overwhelming view of the intelligence community that Russia sought to influence the 2016 election.

I think there is a legitimate Federal interest in making sure that we do have floors--not ceilings, not micromanagement.

I was part of the group of secretaries of state that Senator Lankford and Klobuchar invited to advise them.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 7:40 p.m., adjourned until Tuesday, June 19, 2018, at 10 a.m…

The unmanned aerial system to me is kind of like the Internet. It can be used for good or bad.

The authorities that we are discussing at this point, who would make the decision on when those authorities go into place

The decision as to where these technologies will be deployed is going to be made at the highest level

What is a national focus? What is a State response and a local focused on that?

There is much still to be done in this process to make sure we have some regulatory certainty that maintains a growing, vibrant economy.

This affects how people will be able to save for their own retirement or try to invest when they are just getting started out

What do you need from us? Because you all still have a connection on whether it is initial coin offerings or whether it is fraud or whether it is money laundering or any number of things that are in that space.

SEC's mission is to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation.

That would be helpful.

The job market is accelerating.

We have one of the lowest unemployment rates that we have had in decades now.

The American economy is benefiting from good leadership at this point as well.