And they don't have the influence that Jim Inhofe and Tom Cole and Frank Lucas have had over the last decades. What's Tom Cole's future like right now? Oh, right now, I'm fortunate enough to be chairman of the Appropriations Committee. That's a good position to influence things that you think are important nationally, but particularly look after important things in Oklahoma, whether it's Tinker Air Force Base and Fort Sale, the Mike Maroney center or Kerr Water Labs. (31:39–31:43)
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