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James Lankford

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James Paul Lankford is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Oklahoma since January 2015. A member of the Republican Party, Lankford has focused on issues such as healthcare, government spending, and religious freedom during his time in office. He previously served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011 to 2015, representing Oklahoma's 5th congressional district.

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Jan 18, 2017

A healthy workforce is a stable workforce, and a stable workforce is going to continue to produce.

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Jan 18, 2017

In my view, the only way to ensure that the Federal Government... stops beating up on small businesses... is to enact meaningful regulatory reform.

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Jan 18, 2017

Unfortunately, the views of the Office of Advocacy have been ignored more often than not.

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Jan 18, 2017

We have to give our country's small businesses a break. They need relief.

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Jan 18, 2017

it is great to see the Chairman here, Chairman Risch, but I also have a statement from the Ranking Member of Small Business, Jeanne Shaheen, and would ask that that be submitted for the record.

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Jan 18, 2017

All of them have their own silo. All of them have their own requirement to be able to check things off.

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Jan 18, 2017

Your new Democratic colleague in the Senate, Senator Tammy Duckworth, from Illinois, also introduced a version of that legislation.

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Jan 18, 2017

At some point, this looked rational to someone in D.C.? But it does not look rational to anyone else.

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Jan 18, 2017

I do fear that at times agencies do believe, 'I posted that in the Federal Register. Every small business in America should have seen it.'

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Jan 18, 2017

If the EPA wants to come around, you tell them no.

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Jan 17, 2017

It is an honor to speak in support of Attorney General Pruitt today.

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Jan 17, 2017

In an environment where Chevron deference is precedent it is critical that the leader of an agency that has such wide latitude to extract costs from the economy respects the importance of our federalist foundation and the pocketbooks of…

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Jan 17, 2017

He has argued consistently that many regulations the EPA promulgates are in fact the responsibility of State government.

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Jan 17, 2017

I think he will be an excellent Administrator for the EPA, and I think he will do very well today in getting a chance to bring you the confidence that he will work hard for our Nation's present and for the future.

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Jan 17, 2017

As the Administrator of the EPA, I would fully expect Scott to lead the Agency to follow every environmental law and to partner with States, local authorities, and tribes to do what is best for our present and our future.

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Jan 9, 2017

So they weren't getting to current information, basically?

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Jan 9, 2017

You also highlight several other ways that the Russians have been engaged in our Nation just as a whole.

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Jan 9, 2017

What is unique and what is disturbing, though, about this election, 2016, is the aggressiveness and the variety of tools they use...

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Jan 9, 2017

The thought that anyone would say that selling a 13-year-old is something that fits within a business model is astounding to me.

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Jan 9, 2017

The worst thing that this city oftentimes deals with is the stovepipe mentality and the rice bowls.

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Jan 9, 2017

What I am looking for is some cooperation in a sense of this is not going to be a jurisdictional fight and so no one does it, but how do we actually build a sense of teamwork and cooperation between Armed Services, Intel, and DHS, and so…

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Jan 9, 2017

No. There was reconnoitering, intrusion on certain voter rolls, but to the best of our knowledge no manipulation of them.

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Jan 9, 2017

Forty-seven thousand Americans died last year from drug overdoses. It cost America $250 billion. We have to do something.

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Jan 9, 2017

As we stated in the report, we have no evidence of any manipulation of vote tallies whatsoever.

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Jan 9, 2017

The history of this goes back to the sixties, when the Russians attempted to fund certain candidates...

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