James Lankford

What is the speed, typically, that they can get an answer to that?

Let me ask you about some perspective things, as well.

I hope that caucus meeting goes extremely well.

Good. So, you have a tremendous amount of experience you walk into this with.

OK. Let me ask a little bit on the backlog issue, as well.

It is a national issue for us. It is not a D.C. issue. It is a border-to-border issue, that we are dealing with a rapid rise in addiction and the consequences that come with that and the destruction on families and communities that are…

We had people who had been nominated 2 years ago, waited 2 years to get people confirmed. That is awful and we have to do a whole lot better than that.

Good, as they should be in this area especially.

So give me an example of that. What does real moderation look like?

As a Dad of two daughters, this is important to me, as it is important to everyone else on this dais.

This is a dark spot in our country that we have to be able to both shine light on and to be able to deal with in the days ahead.

Thank you for what you are doing for a lot of families around the country.

So you are bailing water at this point on a ship that is taking on a lot of water, and you are bailing basically for staying afloat.

So how expensive is that software? Is that millions of dollars to be able to purchase software like that?

So a child ad could be a few dollars, or it could be $18 or $20?

Senator, to me, there is a risk associated with bringing anybody in from the outside, but especially from a conflict zone like that. My concern there is that there are certain gaps, I do not want to talk about publicly, in the data that is…

There is a lot of news that is happening this week. There are a lot of things going on--an incredible celebration of veterans and the recognition they are very worthy of. That is the 1 percent in our Nation that actually secures the…

We will send all of our hard questions by mail.

The American people are not opposed to a regulatory scheme. They really do want clean food, clean air, clean water.

Let me ask the process. How did that work through, something that affects a relatively small number of people?

Because like I said, it has been years that this has been an issue, but it was philosophically the top saying we have to redress this.

How do you balance the two of those where it is we are tough on dollars to be able to do it?

Let us talk about just the rules that are listed as rules.

I need somebody to prove me wrong on this.

I am trying to help the agencies in this to say things cannot sit out that we know have been a problem for this long.