James Lankford Hammers Dems For Blocking Vote On Joint Chiefs Of Staff

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During remarks on the Senate floor Thursday, Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) spoke about the Democrats blocking a vote on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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00:00Mr. President, I'm joining my colleague in expressing some frustration that we can't

00:04vote on the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. This is the kind of stuff that drives

00:09people crazy back home. For an individual that is the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs,

00:15most people back in my state of Oklahoma think this has already been done.

00:19But to not be able to move on this, to literally have my Democratic colleagues block and to say,

00:24we're not going to allow the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff or our military to be able to be

00:28there is just another one of those moments of Washington, D.C. gridlock and frustration,

00:32especially when this person moved out of committee with a vote of 24 to 4.

00:39That is overwhelming bipartisan support. There's just not controversy about this nominee.

00:45But now suddenly to be able to have a game to be able to say we want to be able to stall this out

00:49and maybe block this person until after Easter and so that we don't have a Chairman of the Joint

00:55Chiefs of Staff is frustrating for people to say, come on, just have the vote.

01:02So I joined my colleagues on the Republican side to say, what is the problem? Everyone knows this

01:09person's going to be voted on is going to be approved because there's such wide bipartisan support.

01:15But for my Democratic colleagues to say, nope, we want to drag this out for weeks.

01:19I just don't think it's the right thing to do. Clearly, they disagree. But I don't think it's the

01:25right thing to do.

James Lankford Hammers Dems For Blocking Vote On Joint Chiefs Of Staff

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