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'?

We very much appreciate the work on that.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I want to make sure we are getting your input in here as well.

If I talk to an agent, they still feel like an appendage in the DHS machine.

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

I get very emotional about duplication.

A complicated Federal bureaucracy has hamstrung agencies as they seek to achieve their core missions in service to all Americans.

As we meet today, no one knows exactly how many agencies actually make up the Federal Government.

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

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

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 facing as a…

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

President Trump is prioritizing engagement with Vietnam, an important trading partner of the United States.

I have raised for the last 2 years in this subcommittee and in the full committee the possibility that those dollars would be spent one time and then could not be spent again the same dollars the next year, year after year.

But it is not technical that we overspend an additional $9 billion on paper but nowhere else gets to see it.

No one in America is above the law, and no one in America is not faced with accountability and checks and balances.

You've spoken very bluntly from the very beginning from your opening statement all the way through this time.

I just want to say thank you. That is something that we have worked on for a couple years.

I appreciate you trying to clarify that for us.