years ago and not the you of today. when he was a senator he voted no on raising the debt ceiling and now coming back and saying it would be irresponsible to not raise the ceiling. there is an interesting dichotomy there. you have to be able to look at the reality. what you opened in your opening monologue, there is a difference between playing politics and making policy. so many come here because they are good at politics and they are not good at implementing policies and ideas. the people at home need solutions and answers. we have to get to the solutions and answers and get it solved. thank you very much. appreciate you being here. now, go do the lord s work in the devil s town. we appreciate it. congressman james langford of oklahoma. he voted against obama care, but he says that it s here and we need to figure out how to
to move forward. over 70 votes, and said, yes, we ought to go ahead and move forward with the issue. there is still some people who frankly are not that way and who would rather see the dysfunction of government in order to score political points. frankly, i always saw jim demint as being one of those people. we have one of the republicans who is okay with shutting down the government in the name of going after obama care. he s congressman james langford and he ll join us from washington. my customers can shop around.
republican congressman james langford, opposed to military intervention in syria. thank you for your time. thank you. what is your primary concern, why at least at this point you are a no vote? it s a long range effectiveness? what do rewe solve by it? the russians and iranians could resupply within a year. if we do a weekend s worth of bombing and at the end assad sticks his head out and said i defeated the americans and rebels, what does that do to american credibility in the region and days to come? we don t look stronger at the end, we look like we re not serious. this is a serious issue. we don t want either side to have chemical weapons when the war is over but i m not sure we solve the problem by launching tomahawks in syria right now. let me bring up two issues. i ll read you what bill crystal wrote. republicans will have to resist
they are doing a head count to find out how many may be trapped. of course, there are relatives around the nation watching live coverage wondering about loved ones. listening to the coverage there of our affiliate at kfor, parents are worried about the two elementary schools in the area. again, the plaza towers elementary school they are trying to find the k through third graders, fourth through sixth, all of those kids have been accounted for. we re going to take an eye on that. we are taking a break to talk with congressman james langford. you are in the area in. i am actually in washington, d.c., i was in the area shawnee 20 miles to the east of that and got on the plane midday today and came up to washington, d.c. i m looking at your facebook page and seeing the images of you in the area so i thought
milissa. i hate to leave but i ve got to be able to step here and get on the house floor and continue to take care of some stuff here. thank you for your coverage. american red cross does a great job for those that want to help, can give and participate in that and then obviously people across the area can donate blood and be a part of this process. glad to have americans prayers in this time. congressman langford who was in shawnee touring the devastation and now is back in washington. milissa, you had an opportunity to speak with the mayor of oklahoma. this is an area that you know well from your earlier coverage. it looks like a bomb went off. you know, i remember back