I call up my motion to instruct, which is at the desk. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the motion. The legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from New Jersey [Mr. Menendez] moves that the managers on the part of the…

I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.

this motion would establish an inspector general at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. As we have seen over the past several years, inspectors general are a key way that Congress conducts oversight over our Federal Government…

the instruction by my colleague from Wisconsin directs conferees to reject bipartisan House language that addresses a serious public health concern related to mink farming. Mink farms in Europe and the United States have spawned five…

Thank you so much. And going back to the issues that my office gets calls on.

It is just an aggressive plan for hiring people, and have them all trained and ready to roll.

But it wouldn't offset the cost that much is what you are saying, although you get the technology?

But our information is telling us it could be 8 weeks to 37 weeks to properly get someone trained.

So you can have them--everybody trained in a month?

But you feel confident even those who have never worked for the IRS before you can have them trained by June.

Are you aware of the hours IRS employees spend on union time now?

What level of confidence do you have that the biometric data that has already been provided, or will be provided, is protected?

Is that fair, instead of addressing the backlog of returns of unanswered calls?

I have long championed a diverse workforce at the Department and equity in the implementation of U.S. foreign policy.

We are told by the Administration that if the negotiations didn't conclude by the end of February that, in fact, the time that would be lost and what we would gain would be of very little importance or value to us.

We appreciate, Mr. Chairman, your prompt action to schedule a hearing for Ambassador Brink, which I understand is next week.

Title 42 is not the solution, it's part of the problem. Who who wants to control the border would permit a provision that allows countless numbers of times that an individual can try to cross the border? That's what Title 42 does.

Putin has declared war against Ukraine. Whether he does it formally or not is inconsequential.