Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
On telephone with us, we have Senator James Like and Senator welcome to
Bartelshield. You got some business here today, Thank you. Actually, I
have several meetings in Bartlesville today. It was in Woodward yesterday in Western Oklahoma,
and looking forward spending the day in Bartlesville and being with some of the
different beauty leaders. Getting a chance to be able to visit around town and
see what I can learn real quick before we head back to d C in
a couple of weeks. What's going to be your main focus while you're in
town. It's always a getting chance to be able to listen here. What's
going on here? The thoughts in d C so much representing us and our
values. It's nice to be able to be home around this time period.
We don't have votes, and this week before Easter, so I just to
be able to travel around the state, just get a chance to listen more
than anything else. Can answer questions about what's happening with appropriations and things in
d C, but really it's finding out what's going on while people are thinking
about what they what they want me to be able to work on and to
be able to fill in some of the gaps of the undone. Well,
one of the things that's on people's mind today is that the United States abstained
in a vote I guess at the UN when it came to supporting Israel.
I kind of wanted to get your take on that. Yeah, that's shocking
to me, but in some ways not surprising when the United States is a
strong ally at Israel and has remained a strong at Israel. But you'll remember
the last weeks of the Obama administration. The Obama administration did the same thing
where they abstained at the UN where the UN was attacking Israel, and the
United States instead of vetoing that abstained and allowed it to be able to go
through with a challenge to Israel. So that's how the Obama administration ended.
The Biden administration is now pulling the same trick to be able to say when
the UN is going after Israel, the United States is just going to sit
on our hands and say, no big deal. So this is a real
problem for Israel. Obviously, Benjamin Netzin, who has already withdrawn some of
his folks in Israel that were coming to Washington to be able to meet with
some Abiden staff and said we're not going to do that. This is all
around the area and southern guys are called Rafa. There are four Hamas brigades
that are in Rafa. And what the Biden administration or what the un are
saying is, don't go after those hamaspurgates. Just ignore those, lead those
alone. They'll be fine. And what Benjamin Netsiah and the Israelis are saying
is I understand there are civilians in Rafa, but there's also terrorists in Rafa
that are intent and have announced they're going to kill Israelis again, and we
cannot just ignore them and think that gets better by ignoring them. And so
that's that's the challenge right now that the United States is saying, lead those
terrorists there, amazingly they're just ignoring it in Israel saying we can't ignore terrorists
they will kill us again. Another thing that's on a lot of folks minds
that we hear about here, you know, being a talk radio station,
we hear a lot the recent budget continuing resolution. I guess that went through
here lately. You're not a big fan of shutting down government, but you've
actually come up with some proposals to make sure that doesn't happen even if we
do come into a situation like this. That is correct. Congress has now
finally passed all six appropriation bills and they become laws, so we don't have
a continuing resolution we're functioning under right now. But I did not support the
one point two trillion dollars spending package that came up last week because they're just
it had good things in it that were positive, but it had enough bad
things in it that I thought, I just can't support this. With every
one of the bills that are like this, you have to look at it
and say, I understand there's some good things in it, but are the
bad things bad enough that I just can't support it? And on this bill
it was I do want to end the whole drama on Indian government or having
government shutdowns. There's a way to prevent that, and the easiest way to
prevent it is put the pressure on Congress and take it off the American people.
Every time we get to this point, leadership of Congress says, if
we don't do something right now with this bad bill, then we're going to
have a government and shut down and there'll be all kinds of chaos across the
country, which is true. There are real problems. People say, hey,
my life went on, but anyone who's trying to get a permit,
who's trying to be able to work through different issues, there are real problems
around the country. So I have a bill just that prevents government shutdowns.
You get to a week like we did this past time. If we don't
like the bill, we don't have to vote for it because we can continue
to be able to debate it. But in the meantime, members of Congress,
we have to stay in session seven days a week. We can only
work on that one bill, so we get locked into a box that this
is what we have to work on until we actually get it resolved. To
me, that's a better idea than just saying this is a bad bill.
Vote for it to be able to say it's not a good bill. Let's
keep debating it till we get it right, but hold everybody else harmless.
Interesting, it seems like the easy choice. Well, you know you're taking
away levers and power when you take away threats and fear. You know that's
correct, And that's exactly what I'm trying to do to say, hey,
let's actually solve the problem rather than just continue to be able to make it
worse. We can continue to be able to debate it and work on it.
And quite frankly, if you want to take away some or you want
to get somebody's undivided attention, I guess I should say is take away all
their time and to say we can't work on anything else other than this,
and you can't travel, you can't go see family, you can't anything else
until we solve this. The leverage is still there for everybody to look at
each other and say, I'm tired of looking at you. Let's figure this
out. That's a good thing to be able to have, is that moment.
But it's a bad thing to be able to continue to say we have
thirty four trillion dollars worth of debt and we're just going to keep going on
like it's not there. We're speaking with us Senator James Langford. How can
people get a hold of you other than you know, maybe bumping into you
in Bartlesville in person today. Yeah, we'll be around obviously partiesle today and
get a chance to run into a lot of folks. But they can just
go online at Langford dot Senate dot gov, Langford dot Senate dot gov and
if you type in there, it's got my email address. It's got snail
mail. If you want to put a stamp on something in mail it to
me, the post office would be excited. You can call us from there.
We've got all of our phone numbers. You can also go on social
media at Senator Lankord and any of the social media platforms.