James Lankford

Thank you again for supporting our employees who protect us and our great nation.

The Federal Government is facing a hiring crisis.

A vacancy cannot be open for 106 days, nor can someone in the process wait that long to get an answer.

The greatest threat is the debt of our Nation.

What I'm trying to be able to determine is the coordination of information, the local law enforcement and from data that's gathered from some of the work that's happening overseas.

What I'd be interested in from you all is, on a national security level and what you're seeing, what are we facing?

I think there needs to be a national cry for that.

The more transparency we can provide to the American people, to people of nations that see this threat coming, the better off we will be.

I think that sends a very strong signal that any elections that are coming up need to be--we need to assume that there might be interference with that, particularly from the Russians and maybe from some other malign actors.

It is one of the frustrations that we had in going through this, was how long it took after the last election for individual States to even be notified.

I think the all-in-one hiring that Mr. Grady talked about is really helpful, but expanded ability to waive would be good.

It was interesting that we bring all these issues. And some of this is 15 years of pent-up energy and of questions.

Again, there is no reason to rebuild something that already exists.

Is there a specific need that you see already at this point on the location and facilities for training?

How much facilities sharing can we use?

I did, and I would again because I think Russia has been a bad actor for us, I mean continues to be.

I continue to believe the Russia is very actively engaged and try to not only undermine our democracy, but they're doing that around the world.

It's hard to tell what went on. Obviously we'll all know in a few months once he leaves.

It's very important for the American people at the end of it. To see us all working together, we've got to put out a common set of facts and we've got to agree on those set of facts.

I also want to be able to highlight the Inspector General for the Postal Service.

Do we have any incentives for other nations to be able to cooperate with us when we are trying to interdict this?

I would like to ask Senator Sasse to join us for this colloquy as well.

The House passed both the pain-capable and the infant protection born-alive bills in prior months. The Senate has yet to take that up, and it is our hope in the Senate to be able to bring that up for real dialogue in conversations in the…

That was actually my next question. Is there cooperation with other States and sharing that information?

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