Senator James Lankford (R-OK) spoke out recently on the illegal alien invasion of American by Central Americans and by President Trump’s response to it. He noted that this current mess was set in motion by Barack Hussein Obama and his open borders Democrat allies. Lankford also discussed the recent rash of fake pipe bombs being
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Senator James Lankford (R-OK) was a key player in securing the release of Pastor Andrew Brunson from a Turkish prison. Brunson faced 35 years in prison for the trumped of charge of trying to overthrow the Islamic government. Brunson had spent more than two decades in Turkey evangelizing Muslims. Sen. Lankford recently posted this video
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Senator James Lankford (R-OK) applauded President Trump’s Executive Order in response to foreign interference in US elections. The Executive Order would further define election infrastructure and foreign interference, direct the Executive Branch to develop additional processes for assessing and determining interference in a US election, and mandate interagency reporting of potential foreign interference following a federal
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Bill Would De-Politicize US Foreign Aid to Palestinians Yesterday, Senator James Lankford (R-OK) introduced the Palestinian Assistance Reform Act (PARA), a bill which seeks to change the way the international community provides assistance to Palestinians living in the West Bank, Gaza, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. Specifically, the bill would require that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency
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On August 1st, Senator James Lankford (R-OK) introduced a bill to protect churches, charities, and other non-profit organizations from a provision in the new tax law that would tax some employee benefits for the first time. The Lessening Impediments from Taxes (LIFT) for Charities Act, would repeal a section in the tax code that would require
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Senator James Lankford (R-OK), who co-chairs the Congressional Prayer Caucus, appeared on Fox News yesterday morning to discuss a wide range of topics. They included: Pulling the security clearances from Obama officials, dealing with North Korea, the Obama DOJ/FBI scandal involving the framing of President Trump as a Russian agent, and Obama attempting to meddle
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Last week, Senators James Lankford (R-OK), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Chris Coons (D-DE) sent a letter to President Trump, signed by a bipartisan group of more than two dozen senators, stating that the default position of the United States should be to keep families together at the border, and urging the administration
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Senator James Lankford (R-OK) released a video to highlight the Senate’s accomplishments in the first six months of 2018. During the video, Lankford features the growing economy, increase in wages, passing the historic tax reform bill, reforming Dodd-Frank regulations to reduce the burden on community and small banks, passing the VA Mission Act, passing Right
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Senator James Lankford (R-OK) made the following statement on the President’s decision to withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also called the Iran Nuclear Deal, and impose additional sanctions on Iran. “The Iran nuclear agreement, designed and agreed to by President Obama, had major flaws from the beginning. The agreement gave permanent
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Sen. Lankford: “The rules proposal that the Minority Leader is opposing is the exact same rules proposal that he actually voted for in 2013” Senator James Lankford (R-OK) delivered a floor speech last week in response to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) criticism of Lankford’s gridlock reform Senate rules change resolution (S. Res.
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