James Lankford

Which we are already in.

I do not want to just lose as many. I want to win.

If we get a rate down to 25 percent, which has been discussed, or whatever that may be for a corporate rate, that does not really solve the problem, it does not seem like.

Mr. Pyott, let me continue on that same line on the intellectual property issue.

I like to win. Right now we are losing because we are at this rate that is noncompetitive.

What can we do as a Nation to encourage R&D to be here beyond just the rate itself?

Can I ask the rest of the panel, do any of you believe that if marijuana was decriminalized on the reservation... that would help the drug use problem?

I think it is us turning a blind eye to our responsibility to say, decriminalizing it is no big deal, it is 'just marijuana.'

If we do not have an administration which will allow you to engage or to use those techniques and tactics and whiz gadgets out there, then this does nothing for us.

When we have an administration that turns a deaf ear and a blind eye to the needs of our men and women as they are serving overseas in these agencies, it does not do us a darn bit of good.

I appreciate that very much.

Nothing breeds morale better, and a strong morale, than success.

So just earlier notification but still an urgency to be able to say we have to resolve this real property issue?

Those legislative proposals to come back would be very important to us.

I look forward to continuing that conversation and look forward to hearing your testimony today.

Everyone wants to have Federal property in their city because they are good neighbors.

Thank you. I would like to welcome Ms. Roth as well.

Sometimes I say to my staff and others, make me a guided missile, not an unguided missile.

Any leader has a responsibility for morale of the people that are around.

That will be something that we will look for in the days ahead--a legislation proposal or a set of ideas of how do we get to there.

I would tell you that Senator Carper has worked on this for a long time, and Senator Coburn, as he mentioned before, had worked on it for a long time.

That is one of the greatest problems, I think, we face in the Federal Government--that we are not communicating.

We want to be able to own it, be able to operate it.

When that moves into private hands or when it moves into not being used then the building gets rundown and becomes a problem.

I appreciate the conversation, though, as well.