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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

we remember, at 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, 168 people were tragically murdered in the worst act of homegrown domestic violence and terrorism in our Nation's history. That was in Oklahoma City. The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. 28-Year Anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing

Thank you. Secretary Mayorkas, thank you again for being here.

But then that could be used for other things at this point. But the detention numbers should be at epic levels, a historic number.

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

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…

the numbers continue to climb, total numbers.

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.