Whatever the mechanisms are that are put in place, as long as our officers are appropriately trained...

This is a challenge. It is not normal, but it is a challenge for us to be able to process through.

Were you surprised that President Biden's budget flat-lined all of DHS and flat-lined hiring and it did not extend new hiring

I think that we need to understand that we need to use the most modern technology.

I would agree it could be done better.

I do not know if the IRS has done any kind of study on what that would do for jobs, or what that would do for the price of gasoline across the United States and how that would increase the inflation rate across the country;

I come to the floor today to give an update on what is happening on our southwest border. It seems a lot of the national media has stopped focusing on that area. I talked to the people in Oklahoma and asked: What is going on on the…

It will be an area that we need to be able to talk about.

It is a tough job to be able to step up into.

I completely understand all the issue with on-reservation gaming.

Well, I would assume it is exponentially larger than the $10,000.

What would you need budget-wise to just fulfill that? And is that $600 transaction amount something that IRS requested to be included?

I take the threat from China incredibly seriously. I think it is a generational challenge to the national interests of this country.

If it does not smell right, it is probably not right.

The Biden administration extended temporary protected status to Haitians that are in the country.

I ask unanimous consent that the preamble be agreed to and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The preamble…

Senator Inhofe and I and this body have just passed by voice vote a resolution recognizing the 100th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. It is a significant resolution not only to be able to recall what happened in that terrible…

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the consideration of S. Res. 234, submitted earlier today. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will report the resolution by title. The senior assistant…

I know of no further debate on the resolution. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there further debate? Hearing none, the question is on adoption of the resolution. The resolution (S. Res. 234) was agreed to.

There has been some conversation that the administration is examining ways to be able to change tax policies without going through Congress.

Any sort of agreement that is a treaty agreement, or is an agreement for changing tax policy, would require bipartisan cooperation and engagement on this issue.

Larry Summers even warning that this legislation was the 'least responsible macroeconomic policy we've had in the last 40 years.'

I would expect that to be the case. I, again, would need to be briefed on the issue.

there is a lot going on right now. I have already spent time on the floor today to talk about some of the economic issues--inflation, unemployment--that are happening. There are a number of jobs that are open in my State. In fact, there is…

in February of this year, there was bipartisan conversation about what is the next step dealing with COVID. We knew we were coming out of it. Vaccines were going in arms. States were opening up. My State in Oklahoma was rapidly opening in…