I remain firmly committed to ensuring that Congress does its part to eliminate duplication, overlap, and fragmentation to achieve cost savings for taxpayers and improve program outcomes.

Remember, never let the urgent crowd out the important.

I look forward to continuing to work with you on Taxpayer Right-to-Know and a number of other key bills.

I have introduced a bill with Senator Braun that would require agencies to identify duplicative or unnecessary programs and work with Congress to eliminate them.

Concerns about the time that tax refunds are taking is probably one of the top issues I am hearing about from constituents, on a steady, steady basis.

Thank you, Senator Portman. Again, I want to thank Ranking Member Johnson for sitting on this hearing with me.

We are working on legislation right now to try and address some of the concerns in that region, and obviously energy is one of those big issues.

Europe must work to end its dependence on Russian energy resources.

Lowering fuel costs, increasing energy efficiency, and diversifying how we heat our homes is critical for Americans and for our allies and partners.

I personally have been concerned that Russia's energy policy toward Europe was not just a simple transactional arrangement to provide oil and gas, but a tool that Putin could weaponize and, as we have seen, has weaponized to advance his…

A total collapse of Lebanon is not in the interest of any of the countries in the region or the United States.

Serbia and the Western Balkans are one of the places where Russia still has a fair amount of influence and has the potential to disrupt stability and make things more difficult.

Thank you, and thank you for your work.

My heart goes out, as the hearts of Granite Staters and Americans everywhere, to the families and friends who lost loved ones during the heinous domestic terrorist attack in Buffalo.

I think it was at the Helsinki Commission hearing this week that one of the people testifying suggested that one of the things that would be really helpful would be to have France--if France were to allow the grid interconnection to…

I know Ukraine, and for all that I really admire what they are doing, from an energy perspective, they have been most--one of the most energy inefficient countries in Europe.

We have to be able to marry our political agenda, our policy goals with economics.

So what we are trying to do is to see what can we--how can we work within the market forces to see if we can identify re-routing of gas to Europe on an urgent basis and reduce the demand itself.