WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:02.560 Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome. 2 00:00:02.600 --> 00:00:07.599 It's time now to speak with our US senator from Oklhoma, James Lankfrit. 3 00:00:07.599 --> 00:00:11.160 How are you doing today's Senator, You know what I'm doing. Well, 4 00:00:11.279 --> 00:00:14.359 Good morning to you. We got the State of the Union coming up 5 00:00:14.359 --> 00:00:19.559 tonight. What do you expect and kind of give us a little bit of 6 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:24.480 a scenario of what you'd like to see in here. What I'd like to 7 00:00:24.480 --> 00:00:28.839 see in here, I very likely will not here tonight, but it is 8 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:34.119 pomp and circumstance. It's a constitutionally mandated event to be able to gather together. 9 00:00:34.200 --> 00:00:39.719 The president either addresses by paper or addresses publicly what his vision is for 10 00:00:39.799 --> 00:00:45.000 the country. My concern is east cast a vision before about unifying the country, 11 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:49.159 about securing the border, about a growing economy, about more freedom and 12 00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:53.520 opportunity for us as Americans. The problem is we've had exactly the opposite for 13 00:00:53.560 --> 00:00:57.840 the last three years. So I expect that President Biden will lay out a 14 00:00:57.880 --> 00:01:02.359 public agenda, but my fears the actual agenda will be very very different. 15 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:07.719 Senator. Budget things that come and go. We've been doing a lot of 16 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:12.519 these continuing resolutions. We've got to get off that train. One agree on 17 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:15.920 that this has been a frustration. The budget was set to be done, 18 00:01:15.959 --> 00:01:19.799 their twelve appropriation bills, they were set to be done in September the thirtieth 19 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:23.879 of the last year, and they've yet to be done. We've just done 20 00:01:23.879 --> 00:01:26.719 a continuing resolution, which just is take the previous year's budget, change the 21 00:01:26.799 --> 00:01:30.719 numbers, and move forward, which is exceptionally inefficient. Every time you do 22 00:01:30.760 --> 00:01:37.040 a CR continuing resolution, it means you can't stop programs, you can't start 23 00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:41.239 new programs, so things that expired the year before are still getting funded. 24 00:01:41.280 --> 00:01:47.319 It's incredibly wasteful. So the House passed yesterday six of the twelve appropriation bills 25 00:01:47.319 --> 00:01:49.560 that they've been working on individually. We have also did the cent have been 26 00:01:49.560 --> 00:01:53.799 working on three of these we've already passed before. So the House passed those. 27 00:01:55.480 --> 00:01:59.719 They're very strong. They hold funding down and in fact they keep the 28 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:04.120 it's called domestic funding flat, so there's no increases in that. That's very 29 00:02:04.200 --> 00:02:07.759 helpful to us. And so they pass those six overwhelmingly yesterday. They come 30 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:13.719 to the Senate either today or tomorrow. We'll also have those to have the 31 00:02:13.719 --> 00:02:15.919 opportunity at least get six of the twelve done. We've got to get the 32 00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:22.240 other six done individually in the next three weeks, so that'll be the next 33 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:23.639 battle is to be able to get the rest of those done, to be 34 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:28.520 able to finally get us off by continuing resolution, which we should not have 35 00:02:28.599 --> 00:02:30.439 at this point. But the big ones are still coming. Deal with national 36 00:02:30.439 --> 00:02:34.960 defense, deal with healthcare. There's a lot of issues that are still coming 37 00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:38.199 with These are significant. They deal with ag, they deal with transportation, 38 00:02:38.439 --> 00:02:43.319 highways, all those things. So it is important that we get these done. 39 00:02:43.680 --> 00:02:47.639 Now, when you talk about military, we're talking about not only salaries 40 00:02:47.680 --> 00:02:54.080 for our people in military service, but is this also a defense thing where 41 00:02:54.319 --> 00:03:00.520 it might be tied to funding efforts to support Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and 42 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:05.840 things like that. Yeah, this bill doesn't deal with Ukraine or Taiwan, 43 00:03:06.199 --> 00:03:09.199 Israel, and none of those items are actually included in this. This does 44 00:03:09.280 --> 00:03:15.319 deal with what's called military construction. So you think about construction of new dormitories 45 00:03:16.039 --> 00:03:22.120 and ENID. You talk about the new hangar at Tinker Air Force Base, 46 00:03:22.199 --> 00:03:25.479 what's happening at McAllister Army Ammunition Depot. Some of the facilities there are at 47 00:03:25.479 --> 00:03:30.919 Fort Sill or even for the one thirty seventh or one thirty eighth National Guard. 48 00:03:30.479 --> 00:03:35.400 Those are all included in this bill that's actually coming today, but there's 49 00:03:35.400 --> 00:03:38.919 no four in anything in this bill. I understand you're going to be in 50 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:42.560 the neighborhood pretty soon. Can you tell us a little bit about it. 51 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:46.080 Any chance i'd get to be in the neighborhood I'll take. Actually, I've 52 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:49.800 got several weeks from now, I'll be traveling around the state when we don't 53 00:03:49.800 --> 00:03:52.360 have a week of voting in one of the spots I'm playing to come, 54 00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:54.159 mister Bartlesville, get a chance just to be able to spend time with people, 55 00:03:54.280 --> 00:03:58.439 to be able to listen. It is my joy to do that because 56 00:03:59.159 --> 00:04:00.960 we have about five weeks in a row that will be in Washington, d 57 00:04:01.080 --> 00:04:04.520 C. And then usually have a week that we're not in Washington, DC. 58 00:04:04.639 --> 00:04:08.560 And I'll take that time to be around the state and planning in one 59 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:12.360 of those to be in Martelsville. Very good. I'm going to go back 60 00:04:12.400 --> 00:04:16.959 to the border here a little bit. You know. I just the bill 61 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:23.600 that you worked on very very hard. I didn't quite make it progress in 62 00:04:23.639 --> 00:04:30.199 any form, shape or whatever taking place there in either House there's really not 63 00:04:30.360 --> 00:04:32.360 right now, and the frustration is that the White House has been determined that 64 00:04:33.079 --> 00:04:36.360 they're not going to do anything. The bill that I actually put forward actually 65 00:04:36.399 --> 00:04:40.639 put mandates on the White House to be able to do things and cut funding 66 00:04:40.680 --> 00:04:43.439 from them if they didn't do it. So a lot of people say to 67 00:04:43.480 --> 00:04:45.800 me, this White House is not going to do anything about it. I 68 00:04:45.800 --> 00:04:48.279 said, they will if we actually take funding away from them, and so 69 00:04:48.360 --> 00:04:51.199 that was a key item that we were trying to get them to actually implement. 70 00:04:51.240 --> 00:04:56.800 The border. We're running between sixty four hundred and seven thousand people illegally 71 00:04:56.800 --> 00:05:00.399 crossing the border every day, including yesterday. It's still the continuing problem. 72 00:05:00.480 --> 00:05:05.160 This White House has the ability to dramatically reduce that number by changing what they're 73 00:05:05.160 --> 00:05:10.120 doing on parole, by implementing a lot of the things that took away during 74 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:14.439 the when the Act from the Trump administration into now. So this White House 75 00:05:14.439 --> 00:05:18.199 could make a bad situation better. But to actually get the numbers down where 76 00:05:18.199 --> 00:05:21.240 they need to be, we've got to have additional law as well. We've 77 00:05:21.279 --> 00:05:25.639 got seven thousand people a day that are legally crossing now, but remember in 78 00:05:25.639 --> 00:05:29.639 twenty nineteen, during the Trump administration, we had days of four forty five 79 00:05:29.720 --> 00:05:32.639 hundred, even forty seven hundred in a day during some of that time buried 80 00:05:32.680 --> 00:05:38.240 in twenty nineteen. So even with an administration that's strictly enforcing the law, 81 00:05:38.600 --> 00:05:41.040 you're still going to have days that are higher days. I'm trying to be 82 00:05:41.040 --> 00:05:43.800 able to get it to where we never have high days like that. We 83 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:48.000 actually enforce our border by increasing the strength of the law, increasing the ability 84 00:05:48.040 --> 00:05:51.399 to be able to turn people around faster, so we don't have a slow 85 00:05:51.480 --> 00:05:56.199 screening process. That's the key for me at this point. So, but 86 00:05:56.279 --> 00:06:00.360 we need this administration to step up first and actually start implay, meaning the 87 00:06:00.439 --> 00:06:04.600 law they already have. We're speaking with the US Senator James Lank Senator, 88 00:06:04.680 --> 00:06:09.120 anything else that you like to convey to the audience this morning, Well, 89 00:06:09.160 --> 00:06:12.120 I would tell you it is spring forward this weekend, and it's one of 90 00:06:12.160 --> 00:06:15.560 the weekends that I absolutely don't like. I don't run into a lot of 91 00:06:15.560 --> 00:06:18.399 people that love spring forward in this time period. It's actually something I've worked 92 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:25.199 on for years nationally on changing this clock change back and forth. It's a 93 00:06:25.240 --> 00:06:29.879 remnant still of World War two actually that during the war we were trying to 94 00:06:29.920 --> 00:06:32.399 be able to save oil for our lamps and such from World War One and 95 00:06:32.439 --> 00:06:36.079 World War Two. We need to be able to just lock the clock on 96 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:41.319 it. And parents that I talked to, folks that handle livestock all get 97 00:06:41.319 --> 00:06:44.639 frustrated this time of the year with the time change. I actually have a 98 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:47.199 bill with Marco Rubio that we have for years where we lock the clock and 99 00:06:47.240 --> 00:06:50.439 we don't have time change. And for folks that would that work, State 100 00:06:50.480 --> 00:06:56.240 of Arizona has done this for years. State of Arizona does not change their 101 00:06:56.240 --> 00:07:00.079 clock and for some reason, their kids still get to school safely. Our 102 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:02.759 economy is still doing well. It's not a problem. They just don't deal 103 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:06.759 with the annoyance of clock changes twice a year. So I'd like to see 104 00:07:06.800 --> 00:07:10.800 us have that ability to do that nationally as well. We'll continue to be 105 00:07:10.839 --> 00:07:14.759 able to push what what I call the Sunshine Protection Bill to be able to 106 00:07:14.759 --> 00:07:17.000 lock the clock. So that's change your clocks this weekend. But know that 107 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:19.439 I'm still working on trying to be able to get a law pass where we 108 00:07:19.560 --> 00:07:24.199 don't deal with this every time. How good folks get ahold of your Senator, 109 00:07:24.879 --> 00:07:27.519 it could always reach out to me. Lots of folks find the way. 110 00:07:27.560 --> 00:07:30.879 It's Langford dot Senate dot gov. That's our website, Lanker dot send 111 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:33.279 GOVT. That's got our email address. That's got snail mail where you can 112 00:07:33.319 --> 00:07:36.439 actually write us a letter. US Post Office would be excited about that. 113 00:07:38.120 --> 00:07:41.600 It's got phone numbers there. You can also go to our social media at 114 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:46.000 Senator Langford. Just I ask you one thing. Don't believe everything you read 115 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:46.959 on social media.