James Lankford

If there is some legislative barrier there that does not allow the two of them to cooperate, we just need to know so we can get it fixed.

If the economy starts to get healthy again, then you have more people paying taxes and it goes up.

Well, again, we go back to the same thing with the Washington math.

It's not a matter of their taxes actually going up, it's a matter if they didn't actually take in the subsidies and so they count that in the strange way as actually removing taxes.

Yes. So, very interesting this is classic Washington math.

Yes. It seemed odd and out of place in that moment.

You have pretty strong agreement among Republicans that we don't like the individual mandate. And the reason is it's a tax cut directly on people who can afford it to least.

The longer it takes, the more difficult it is for actually trying to be able to arrange things around that.

That does not exclude faith-based nonprofits, especially after the Trinity Lutheran case earlier this year.

We need to be able to know not only the costs but the strategy for that on the Southern Border.

We have spoken as well before about the election security issues and what we are facing with foreign actors trying to interfere.

I think is an overstatement of what the law is.

This is not a fun process to be able to go through, and all the paperwork and everything that you have to be able to do.

We live as a nation under law, and that is the way we balance that out.

It is of great value to the Nation to have independent voices that do not all have to nod their heads the same way.

There is an expectation here that the backlog will be taken care of, individuals will be heard.

One of the things that we're trying to address is getting additional information.

Certainly immigration has remained a topic throughout.

Some of them, it's been publicly reported that the site was used to try to organize events that were election protest events in certain cities.

So some of the accounts turned to questioning the Electoral College, as an example.

This is not an opposition to free speech, though. This is actually a battle to try to protect free speech.

I am not anti-renewable, to say the least, but I think part of the conversation that we have to have in helping Puerto Rico get back on its feet is to look at resiliency long term.

I feel like in reading the law from the 1990s, when Congress said that nonprofits would be included, that is all nonprofits.

I spoke with Governor Rossello yesterday. They are going to reengage the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) process for power support.

I do not want to run a program that goes into debt, so I know what I do not know, and I know that we need the private sector's support.