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.
there is a problem with the Paycheck Protection Program. It passed with overwhelming bipartisan support last December, but the implementation has been botched. Let me explain what I mean. If you are a small business owner, if you are an…
I do want to thank my friend from Maryland. This is an important issue. It does need to be resolved. It has not had enough attention on this. As he and I talked about it the last several days, and several others joined in, this deals with…
So are we talking a thousand? Are we talking a thousand that would have to be built by then?
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?
This is exceptionally important. It is one of the issues that we do not just deal with 5 minutes every 10 years.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
about 4 weeks ago, it got cold in Oklahoma--really cold. My house was at negative 14 degrees. Now, Senator Steve Daines from Montana is used to that, but in Oklahoma we are not used to negative 14 degrees. It was overcast, snowy, cold…
I think it is just one of many solutions that we could look at across the board.
I have been a very outspoken advocate for, obviously, safety in facilities, in all of our long-term care facilities.
zero risk has a lot of emotional damage on a lot of families, and a lot of individuals in their isolation.
on January 20 of this year, President Biden declared the repeal of an emergency action at our southwest border. He withdrew that and said there is no emergency that currently exists there and paused all funding for the border wall system…
Those may serve as a model, as a good model for how we should be moving as a country.





