All Things With Kim Strassel: Inside the 119th Congress with Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford

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🗓️ 7 January 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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The 119th Congress is steaming ahead, with a mountain of work that includes everything from confirming Donald Trump's cabinet nominees to sealing a reconciliation spending bill (or two) into law. How will the House and Senate navigate it all? On this episode of All Things, Kim Strassel speaks with the Vice Chair of the Senate GOP Policy Committee, Sen. James Lankford, about where things stand in the reconciliation wars, the wisdom of Trump's quick nominations, Joe Biden’s aggressive midnight regulations and how the new GOP Senate majority will function under new GOP leader John Thune. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is All Things with Kim Strassel,
0:35.3	a Potomac Watch podcast. Welcome to All Things with Kim Strassel, a Potomac Watch podcast. Welcome to All Things with Kim Strassel,
0:40.4	a Wall Street Journal opinion podcast and a happy new year to all of our listeners, first timers and
0:46.3	veterans. And I am delighted to say that we get to start 2025 with a man who will be in the
0:52.4	center of the coming congressional action in the Senate,
0:55.4	which is about to tackle confirmations, reconciliation, appropriations.
1:00.6	Senator James Langford, Republican from Oklahoma and the new vice chair of the Senate GOP Policy
1:06.5	Committee.
1:07.7	Senator, congratulations, I think, and welcome to the show.
1:11.0	I'll take the I think congratulations. Welcome to New Year as well.
1:15.1	Senator, it's obviously a great time of opportunity for Republicans. You have officially now
1:20.6	taken back the House and the Senate. On Monday, Congress certified Donald Trump's victory as president,
1:27.0	and he will be sworn in the week after next.
1:29.5	So unified control. Yet the sheer volume of the work facing Congress is really quite eye-popping.
1:37.5	And in the Senate in particular, and that's because you guys are in the additional business of
1:42.5	personnel. You have hundreds of Trump nominees to confirm.
1:48.0	And I wanted to ask you this, just in terms of the dynamic, Donald Trump set this land speed
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