At a Congressional Forum on Wednesday, Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) was asked about deregulation.
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00:00With the current administration's focus on deregulation, for example, environmental
00:06regulations, where do you see those efforts going in the next few years, and what impacts
00:11do you think that will have on business in Oklahoma?
00:14SECRETARY KERRY, Yeah, so there'll be several agreements that are out there that can be
00:17made until environmental regulations.
00:18And let me be clear on this.
00:20If you look at the executive orders that the Trump administration has done on environmental
00:24regulations, read the executive order – again, not on social media, read actually what's
00:30on the executive order.
00:31They've been very clear on all of that to the EPA Administrator, to others, to say,
00:37you fulfill everything that is required by the law to fulfill, but find areas where the
00:44administration in the past has gone beyond what the law requires and in does.
00:51So basically, if this was an act of Congress, if this was made into law, do it.
00:57Follow the law.
00:58But if there were additional things that were made up that were new requirements, don't.
01:03That's what they're going after initially.
01:06And by the way, I'm pleased to be able to say that.
01:10We are a nation of laws.
01:11And if it's in the law, we need to be able to follow it.
01:14And if it's just a preference issue that's causing billions of dollars of damage to our
01:18economy and making things unstable, that's just an executive action that was taken at
01:22some point in the past that's literally making it harder to be able to do business.
01:26So that's what they're going after in every single area of this.
01:30And by the way, our federal courts are still out there.
01:32Every single one of these are going to be challenged.
01:34We'll go through the court system to be able to be evaluated on that.
01:37And I have great respect for where we are in our federal courts.
01:40They'll continue to be able to do their job.
01:42It takes time to be able to do it, but they'll continue to be able to do their job to be
01:46able to make sure the checks and balances continue to work.