We must ensure that the voices of our tribes are heard and respected in this process.

Nothing about me without me. I got it.

Would you be willing to share that information with me? Because obviously as the Senator for Oklahoma, that has direct impact on my State.

The official policy of the Federal Government of the United States ends up pitting African Americans and Native Americans against each other in this terribly unfortunate historic circumstance.

The Choctaw Nation does not recognize the Freedmen. That is because of the constitution.

Is there any action that is currently going on that you or anyone on your team is working on to develop a legislative response to Castro-Huerta or to McGirt?

We want to make sure that sovereignty is respected.

Mr. Chairman, thank you. Thank you to all of you that are here.

I don't ever want something being worked on or developed as a piece of legislation that has direct and immediate impact on Oklahoma tribes and on the State of Oklahoma and Oklahoma not actually be involved in that.

the sentiment was to reconcile the issue of citizenship for the Indian Territory Freedmen

I think it is important to move forward carefully. Measure twice, cut once.

You represent the Freedmen well. You have stayed very knowledgeable on these issues and have stayed tenacious in the process on that.

if this body were to look at the tests and the homework, the quizzes, and the essays of the Department of Homeland Security and give them a grade based on their performance for the last year and a half, what would the grade be? DHS says…

I applaud two leaders of this Committee, Senators Tina Smith and James Lankford, for their bipartisan introduction.

I would like to first start off by saying thank you to the leadership and to the individuals that serve in the two Oklahoma Urban Indian Clinics.

I was proud to sponsor and help pass into law two Urban Indian Clinic focused bills with Senator Smith.

Does that child in the womb have the right to travel, in their future?

Reserving the right to object, this is my first time to be able to stand and speak since the Court made its decision in Dobbs. I have been on this floor I actually don't know how many times talking about the value of every single child…

Allow the American people to give feedback to agencies.

I want to give today's reality check. The Federal Reserve today raised interest rates 75 basis points--three- quarters of a point--with a statement they may come back and do that again in another month. A point and a half in 2 months is a…

There are moments when there is a crime scene that has Federal nexus on it, and you have four or five different agencies all show up.

Our Border Patrol is so overrun that they have stopped doing checkpoints.

My understanding is there are still seven recommendations that are open dealing with DOD, but that seems to be accelerating.

over Memorial Day weekend, I spent a chunk of it in Yuma, AZ. In Yuma, AZ, it is 107 degrees in daytime, 102 at sundown. Those of us from Oklahoma are not used to that kind of heat, but it was very helpful to be there, to be on the ground…

later on today, we are going to be voting on a Congressional Review Act dealing with the title 42-- actually, more specifically, the asylum rule dealing with what is happening at our southwest border right now. Let me first say something I…