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Good morning, good morning, good
morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.

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On telephone with us, we have
Senator James Like and Senator welcome to

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Bartelshield. You got some business here
today, Thank you. Actually, I

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have several meetings in Bartlesville today.
It was in Woodward yesterday in Western Oklahoma,

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and looking forward spending the day in
Bartlesville and being with some of the

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different beauty leaders. Getting a chance
to be able to visit around town and

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see what I can learn real quick
before we head back to d C in

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a couple of weeks. What's going
to be your main focus while you're in

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town. It's always a getting chance
to be able to listen here. What's

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going on here? The thoughts in
d C so much representing us and our

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values. It's nice to be able
to be home around this time period.

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We don't have votes, and this
week before Easter, so I just to

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be able to travel around the state, just get a chance to listen more

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than anything else. Can answer questions
about what's happening with appropriations and things in

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d C, but really it's finding
out what's going on while people are thinking

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about what they what they want me
to be able to work on and to

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be able to fill in some of
the gaps of the undone. Well,

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one of the things that's on people's
mind today is that the United States abstained

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in a vote I guess at the
UN when it came to supporting Israel.

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I kind of wanted to get your
take on that. Yeah, that's shocking

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to me, but in some ways
not surprising when the United States is a

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strong ally at Israel and has remained
a strong at Israel. But you'll remember

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the last weeks of the Obama administration. The Obama administration did the same thing

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where they abstained at the UN where
the UN was attacking Israel, and the

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United States instead of vetoing that abstained
and allowed it to be able to go

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through with a challenge to Israel.
So that's how the Obama administration ended.

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The Biden administration is now pulling the
same trick to be able to say when

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the UN is going after Israel,
the United States is just going to sit

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on our hands and say, no
big deal. So this is a real

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problem for Israel. Obviously, Benjamin
Netzin, who has already withdrawn some of

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his folks in Israel that were coming
to Washington to be able to meet with

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some Abiden staff and said we're not
going to do that. This is all

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around the area and southern guys are
called Rafa. There are four Hamas brigades

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that are in Rafa. And what
the Biden administration or what the un are

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saying is, don't go after those
hamaspurgates. Just ignore those, lead those

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alone. They'll be fine. And
what Benjamin Netsiah and the Israelis are saying

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is I understand there are civilians in
Rafa, but there's also terrorists in Rafa

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that are intent and have announced they're
going to kill Israelis again, and we

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cannot just ignore them and think that
gets better by ignoring them. And so

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that's that's the challenge right now that
the United States is saying, lead those

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terrorists there, amazingly they're just ignoring
it in Israel saying we can't ignore terrorists

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they will kill us again. Another
thing that's on a lot of folks minds

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that we hear about here, you
know, being a talk radio station,

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we hear a lot the recent budget
continuing resolution. I guess that went through

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here lately. You're not a big
fan of shutting down government, but you've

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actually come up with some proposals to
make sure that doesn't happen even if we

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do come into a situation like this. That is correct. Congress has now

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finally passed all six appropriation bills and
they become laws, so we don't have

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a continuing resolution we're functioning under right
now. But I did not support the

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one point two trillion dollars spending package
that came up last week because they're just

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it had good things in it that
were positive, but it had enough bad

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things in it that I thought,
I just can't support this. With every

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one of the bills that are like
this, you have to look at it

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and say, I understand there's some
good things in it, but are the

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bad things bad enough that I just
can't support it? And on this bill

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it was I do want to end
the whole drama on Indian government or having

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government shutdowns. There's a way to
prevent that, and the easiest way to

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prevent it is put the pressure on
Congress and take it off the American people.

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Every time we get to this point, leadership of Congress says, if

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we don't do something right now with
this bad bill, then we're going to

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have a government and shut down and
there'll be all kinds of chaos across the

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country, which is true. There
are real problems. People say, hey,

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my life went on, but anyone
who's trying to get a permit,

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who's trying to be able to work
through different issues, there are real problems

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around the country. So I have
a bill just that prevents government shutdowns.

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You get to a week like we
did this past time. If we don't

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like the bill, we don't have
to vote for it because we can continue

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to be able to debate it.
But in the meantime, members of Congress,

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we have to stay in session seven
days a week. We can only

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work on that one bill, so
we get locked into a box that this

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is what we have to work on
until we actually get it resolved. To

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me, that's a better idea than
just saying this is a bad bill.

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Vote for it to be able to
say it's not a good bill. Let's

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keep debating it till we get it
right, but hold everybody else harmless.

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Interesting, it seems like the easy
choice. Well, you know you're taking

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away levers and power when you take
away threats and fear. You know that's

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correct, And that's exactly what I'm
trying to do to say, hey,

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let's actually solve the problem rather than
just continue to be able to make it

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worse. We can continue to be
able to debate it and work on it.

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And quite frankly, if you want
to take away some or you want

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to get somebody's undivided attention, I
guess I should say is take away all

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their time and to say we can't
work on anything else other than this,

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and you can't travel, you can't
go see family, you can't anything else

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until we solve this. The leverage
is still there for everybody to look at

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each other and say, I'm tired
of looking at you. Let's figure this

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out. That's a good thing to
be able to have, is that moment.

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But it's a bad thing to be
able to continue to say we have

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thirty four trillion dollars worth of debt
and we're just going to keep going on

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like it's not there. We're speaking
with us Senator James Langford. How can

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people get a hold of you other
than you know, maybe bumping into you

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in Bartlesville in person today. Yeah, we'll be around obviously partiesle today and

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get a chance to run into a
lot of folks. But they can just

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go online at Langford dot Senate dot
gov, Langford dot Senate dot gov and

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if you type in there, it's
got my email address. It's got snail

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mail. If you want to put
a stamp on something in mail it to

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me, the post office would be
excited. You can call us from there.

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We've got all of our phone numbers. You can also go on social

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media at Senator Lankord and any of
the social media platforms.