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Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., speaks to reporters in the Senate subway at the U.S. Capitol on January 22, 2024 in Washington, DC. Oklahoma Sen. Lankford working on bipartisan immigration deal
The Oklahoma Republican Party approved a resolution over the weekend condemning and censuring Sen. James Lankford, the state’s senior senator, for his role in the ongoing bipartisan border ...
The U.S. Senate is "very, very close" to a border control deal this week, Sen. James Lankford said Monday. Lankford, the Oklahoma Republican, has for months led negotiations with his Democratic ...
Just before the Senate voted Wednesday to kill the border deal he spent the last four months negotiating, Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford climbed a set of marble stairs outside the chamber and joined ...
The bill did so on Wednesday, with Mr Lankford, a handful of his GOP colleagues, and most of the chamber’s Democrats losing a procedural vote to begin debate on the legislation.
On February 7, Senate Republicans blocked the bill in a floor vote, with only four of the 14 Republican votes needed in favor. Lankford said on the floor before the vote that a "popular commentator" had told him a month earlier, "If you try to move a bill that solves the border crisis during this presidential year, I will do whatever I can to ...
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The United States Constitution (Article 1, Section 5) [1] gives the House of Representatives the power to expel any member by a two-thirds vote. Expulsion of a Representative is rare: only six members of the House have been expelled in its history.