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I am hopeful that we will, once again, be able to come together and produce a bipartisan 2025 bill.

I am concerned that this budget attempts to go around the FRA, the Fiscal Responsibility Act.

They want to save lives. They don't want anyone to go through what they have gone through.

Rural areas have been left behind, the money has not gone appropriately for the challenges they have.

I would implore you to get your staff moving on this one here. We waited a long time for it.

So we thought we crossed every hurdle, crossed every T and dotted every I; it is just time to implement it.

Well, I think this law is very clear, basically, it says that the patient himself and the guardians have to have permission, and give you permission to do it.

I was pleased to see the Department's finalized the rule implementing the Jessica Grubb's Legacy Act we worked on for so long.

I personally am not one of them.

We have got to do better here. I mean, we are really losing a generation.

Concerning to me too is a proposed $10 million for new discretionary group program for funding harm reduction grants.

I was a bit disappointed that the budget lacked new resources for rural health programs.

I commend you for that. However, unfortunately, the budget also continues proposals for new partisan mandatory programs that would spend too much money that we--in this day and age, we just do not have.

I was pleased to see a focus on biomedical research related to the Cancer Moonshot across HHS agencies.

Thank you, Chair Baldwin.

We have lost more Americans to drug overdoses since 1999 than the number of American lives lost in wars or conflicts since the Civil War, and it is absolutely heartbreaking.

I am 100% supportive of that goal as studies show patients treated at NCI-Designated Cancer Centers have higher survival and recovery rates.

The NIH's policy of requiring grantees to submit a 'Plan for Enhancing Diverse Perspectives' or PEDP mandates that researchers prioritize spending their precious time and capital to check the diversity box.