James Lankford

If this committee would focus on, spend all of your time and energy on simplifying the tax code, stop trying to socially engineer through the tax code, a lot of these issues, a lot of these problems, would just evaporate, or would be a…

I have been in the Senate 8 years. Every single year I hear the IRS has legacy hardware and software.

It is difficult for me to be able to track what historic levels may mean.

I do not mind respectful language. That is a good thing, to honor all people in the process.

I prefer to use the term 'respectful' in language rather than 'inclusive.'

That seems too common sense to actually work in the Federal Government.

Taxpayers Right To Know. We have talked about it year after year.

I call the time of COVID the world's largest pilot program for telework, and there are some real opportunities.

For years, I have documented outlandish spending in my annual 'Waste Report,' which exposes how the Federal Government is misusing Americans' hard-earned tax dollars.

It is an appropriate conversation to be able to have, based on where people live and work.

But for whatever reason, census and IRS will not talk to each other.

Strategic human capital management has been on your list since 2001.

This has not been talked about much, but during the pandemic all the so-called rules for looking at abuse just went out the window.

It is my opinion the only way you ever rein in waste and fraud is give these agencies less money, and then they will be forced to make do on less money.

That proposal was universally not accepted because it actually opened the border up more.

It is a major issue to us, just to be able to get facts and data.

Help us with the facts and figures on that, because right now it is our understanding that a very small percentage of people are actually given ankle bracelets.

This is not a partisan issue. This is just a congressional issue.

We have a best guess here, about 600,000 migrants who have yet to receive a notice to appear.

Obviously we have hundreds of thousands, up to millions of people that are current in the country awaiting a hearing, that are traveling at will around the country right now, that we do not know the criminal history of those individuals…

Yes, it is a very broken system.

This is clearly not working in the process.

The numbers continue to climb, total numbers.

The numbers you know well, of the dramatic increase in the number of people crossing our border, without lawful authorization to be able to do so.

What I would like today is the assurance that you are going to give us any information we ask related to the origins of COVID.