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Transcripts For CSPAN2 U.S. Senate 11282017 20171128

The presiding officer duly noted. Mr. Lankford mr. President , i want to be able to address this body to talk about an issue that we dont talk about enough, the deficit. Its an issue for whatever reason weve stopped talking about in washington, d. C. Were talking about tax policy, as we should. Were talking about Disaster Relief areas, which we should. Talking about health policies, which we should. A lot of other things. We have stopped talking about debt and deficit. I think thats a mistake for us. See, as the trend has moved, since 2011, at a high point when the deficit spending that year was 1. 3 trillion in overspending in a single year. Since that point, deficits have gone down a little bit each year until 2015. In 2016, our deficit number, thats a single year overspending started going back up. It went up in 2016. It went up again in 2017. Turning the wrong direction. As you will recall and as many people in this body woul ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Discussion On Campaign Finance Law 20160127

Supreme court litigator. You have three excellent panels that i think you will enjoy. The format we tend to use it instead of people giving short speeches we have aa question her, and interview process and people respond to the questions. This is all unscripted. In any case my name is brad smith command i will be a panelist here as well. Now, buckley was decided 40 years ago and has been criticized routine. If the decision has been surprisingly resilient despite being predictions that it will meet its demise at any time. I remember when i 1st began getting into this area there was an insistence that buckley was a wrong tree in the question was which direction it would fall. Now buckley continues to stand in one writer has suggested it is the president of steel. Criticism has been great. Likened it to the dred scott decision spending 2,000 on a political race. I mean, these are the luminaries of americas Legal Academy that have like ....

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