U.S. Sen. James Lankford took to the Senate floor this week to question how the President’s call for unity contradicts his partisan execution actions taken during his first two weeks in office.
In his first ten days as President, Biden signed 22 executive orders including those that targeted the oil and gas industry with the cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline and the ban of new drilling on federal lands.
Lankford says he thinks there should be bipartisan work to unify the nation moving forward but says there is not even a dialogue at the moment between Democrats and Republicans.
With the snap of his fingers, the Republican Senator addressed those orders during his speech.
Click below to view his comments:
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Senator Lankford: “I had a lot of people in my state that were shocked in the first days of the Biden administration when he stopped the Keystone XL pipeline and then he stopped all energy exploration on federal lands. Those are jobs in my state. Those are—as President Biden likes to talk about—‘union jobs’ that are all over the country. Thousands of people lost their job day one of the Biden administration with a unilateral declaration, we’re not going to do energy exploration, and we’re not going to complete this pipeline.”
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Senator Lankford: “The past two weeks there have been almost two dozen hyper-partisan executive orders that have come out of the White House, and there doesn’t seem to be a push towards actual bipartisan unity here on this floor. In fact, in the first 10 days of the Biden administration, he has signed more executive orders than the last four Presidents combined in their first 10 days.”
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Senator Lankford: “We should address this. We should work for unity. But right now we’re not even having dialogue. We’re not even included in the conversation. If we’re going to have unity, we’ve got to talk about the hard issues and actually come to a decision on how we’re going to resolve those.”
CLICK HERE to view the full list of presidential actions made so far under the Biden Administration.
Source: Press release