James Lankford

It is important to have qualified leaders at OMB to ensure that the Executive Branch agencies operate effectively.

How do we sustain this?

A very good leader in that area.

Senator McCaskill did a great job of outlining a basic call on customer care.

I, along with every other American, get incredibly frustrated.

I have also had people call my office that have been incredibly frustrated by not getting attention with their cable provider.

I am especially concerned about senior adults in my State and the potential for them to be taken advantage of.

I want to talk about an ongoing challenge that we have with packaging, and then I also want to get to streaming.

I have often said that the definition of the Federal Government ought to be the law of negative unintended consequences.

Social Security Disability Insurance goes in the other direction. If you are on SSDI and you go into marriage, then there is a penalty on that.

We still have areas, in Federal tax law--in means testing and such--where there are marriage penalties.

It seems to me that the research community should make their protocols fit the reality of the people, rather than requiring the people to meet their criteria and protocols.

Do you think it is because they want a big sample and want to show a large statistic, rather than trying to look at one area and say that it was successful?

Now, there is almost universal agreement that it has a huge impact on children.

The odds are that, if you get married and if you stay married, your financial situation will be much better.

It is not a matter of going into a neighborhood and saying that everyone here is not successful.

For someone like myself, who grew up in a single-parent household--which, by the way, today is my mom's birthday, so I can say happy birthday to her, as well.

I believe, in your study, you have identified three norms: if someone completes high school, if they have a job, of any type, working full-time, and if they delay parenthood until marriage, they have a 71 percent success rate in getting…

Because that worked for them.

I think Senator Lankford's line of questioning is really right on and I would like to pick up right where he left off.

I think the campaign, today, is allowing ISIS to convert territorial losses into legitimacy in that region.

But, the fear--I think we have reached the point, today, where what has happened on the ground in Iraq and Syria does not so much affect the international appeal of ISIS.

These are important days, and we need to be able to hear clear, articulate voices.

The only way we are going to end this war and the only way we are going to keep our homeland safe and return peace to the civilized world, is if we defeat Islamic terrorists--if we defeat ISIS.

It doesn't seem to be an actual cessation of hostilities.