Fed Chair Powell to @SenToomey on inflation: "I think the word transitory has different meanings to different people...I think it's probably a good time to retire that word and try to explain more clearly what we mean."

@SecYellen: "America must pay its bills on time and in full. If we do not, we will eviscerate our current recovery."

.@PressSec on South Africa travel ban: "The objective here is not to punish, it is to protect the American people...this is not going to prevent, it is going to delay and that delay is going to help us have."

President Biden responds to the question of whether countries would hesitate to report new variants after the U.S. and other countries banned travel from Africa after the emergence of the Omicron variant.

President Biden delivers remarks on the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus, which he says is “a cause for concern, not a cause for panic.” He urges people to get vaccinated and get their booster if they were vaccinated before June 1.

Rev. Al Sharpton reacted to a guilty verdict for all three men in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. "That a jury of 11 whites and one black, in the deep South, stood up in the courtroom and said 'Black lives do matter.'"

Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael, and William Bryan were found guilty of the murder of Ahmaud Arbery.

Energy @SecGranholm: "Obviously, the President does not control the price of gasoline. No president does."

President Biden: "I've asked the Federal Trade Commission to consider whether potentially illegal and anticompetitive behavior in the oil and gas industry is causing higher prices for consumers."

President Biden on high gas prices: "We're taking action...today I'm announcing the largest ever release from the U.S. strategic petroleum reserve...today we're launching a major effort to moderate the price of oil."