James Lankford

If the President wanted to stop an investigation, how would he do that?

The Joint Statement reflected discussions that took place on this issue during the Vietnamese Prime Minister's visit to the United States.

Progress on human rights in Vietnam, including protecting religious freedom and human rights, is of the utmost importance to this administration.

President Trump is prioritizing engagement with Vietnam, an important trading partner of the United States.

Most Oklahomans that I interact with don't know the term '702.' But it--if I asked them, should we collect information on terrorist organizations and terrorists overseas who are planning to carry out attacks on us and our allies, they…

So how does this harm your collection capabilities, to be able to not do the 'about' collections?

I went to the court and said, we have an issue.

The National Security Agency did.

Any attempt by the White House or even the President himself to exploit this community as a tool for political purposes is deeply, deeply troubling.

I've been a supporter of reauthorizing Section 702 to protect Americans from terrorist attacks.

Clearly it's not only the intent; it's the actual statute itself that----

The next hearing of the subcommittee will be held on Wednesday, June 14, at 11:00 a.m. here in this same room.

But as Senator Kennedy said as well, part of the struggle of this subcommittee, not particularly with this subcommittee, but every time there is an increase in spending in one area there is a conversation about cancer research in another.

As Senator Murphy mentioned before, there are a lot of extremely important things to do, and there are a lot of people that are involved in this that are very dedicated folks that work on it.

It is great politics for some because a lot of the people that are doing all the spending will not be here to have to answer when the bills come due.

We just cannot continue to do what we are doing.

I do not know how it works in your household, but I cannot do that in my household and most Americans cannot.

To be brutally honest, the only difference between this place and a drunken sailor is that a drunken sailor stops spending when he runs out of money.

We should maybe just station the Capitol police and have them watch out for the British on the outside of the building and have that as an extra protection as well.

We have not had a problem with smoke and fire in the Capitol before, have we?

We do not think we need to move to a Tier 3 data center.

All right. You are also dealing with data center relocation efforts.

The donors also want to know the transparency portion of it, as well as the transparency of this subcommittee.

Obviously, we have to work out the accountability portion and the transparency portion of that as well.

So we will be looking at that balance.