James Lankford: “The Senate has 1200 people that every time a new president…”

“What, I mean, what is going on? Yeah, it's painful to be able to watch just the most basic things for the operation of government. Let me talk about the Senate. The Senate has 1200 people that every time a new president comes in, the Senate confirms, goes to the nomination process on 1200 people. Each of those could take up to three hours on the floor. Now, do the math on how much time that takes. If you do all of those with three hours, you can never do any legislation.” (05:58–06:06)

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