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James Lankford: “I got a text message last week from a Democrat colleague…”

Featuring: James Lankford, Republican | U.S. Senate, Oklahoma

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Senate border bill re-introduction just politics Sen. James Lankford The Hill

Published | Video Starts at 03:35

No Democrat has reached out. Chuck Schumer has not reached out to me on this one. The way that I found out this bill was coming back up was I got a text message last week from a Democrat colleague saying, hey, this is going to come up next week for a vote. So there's been zero work on this. This group knows how you actually get things in Washington, DC, done. (03:35–03:42)

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Asserts that he was informed about the bill's vote via a text message from a Democrat colleague.

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