Why I cannot, when I electronically file my taxes, also electronically file my Census?

You have the responsibility to say, 'We are doing something somebody else is doing,' then throwing it to OMB and saying, 'We have to figure this out'?

One of the most expensive places to office in the country.

I have the privilege of serving tens of thousands of Federal employees in Oklahoma, and I know they work very hard--honorably to be able to serve their country.

We'll look forward to just maintaining that conversation.

Okay. We'll look forward to getting a chance to work with you on that.

We very much appreciate the work on that.

What is the ongoing conversation in the budgeting to say let's plan for a medical emergency or an outbreak of some type?

So for disaster relief, we have for several years in this Congress tried to figure out an appropriate amount.

Do you feel like the amount that you're requesting is an adequate amount for that?

Of the 4 million Oklahomans that I represent, I think 8 of them read the Federal Register.

Just a reminder, for those of us on the dais as well, I am going to close the hearing right at 11.

Madam President, there are some days that are noisy in DC and in the Nation. It seems as if the disagreements and the discourse have paused for just a moment, and we remember again that we are all Americans and that there are issues we are…

I get very emotional about duplication.

Other comments from the public or from your employees, how is it working?

The transparency I am always a big advocate for on it.

I would like to state my support for Senate bill 1356, the Veterans Education Improvement Act of 2017.

I opposed both efforts. The world of liquid fuels has changed since then and we produce more oil here, import less and consume less gasoline and emit fewer emissions from oil-based fuels.