Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, our health-care system was grappling with an unprecedented workforce shortage.

I am working on a bipartisan basis to promote domestic R&D, including through bipartisan tax legislation with Senators Young, Cortez Masto, Portman, and Sasse.

I look forward to working with you to bolster the committees that the USMCA created, to really make sure the voices of small businesses are heard.

Thank you so much, Mr. Chair and Ranking Member Crapo, for this hearing.

Promoting R&D investment in the U.S. is key to out-competing China.

Moving forward, Congress has to work to address the remaining inequities that limit access to mental health telehealth services for underserved communities.

An important priority of mine this Congress is identifying ways to expand access to care and treatment within incarcerated settings.

Sen. Hassan's Mainstreaming Addiction Treatment Act eliminates the unnecessary and counterproductive requirement that prescribing providers obtain a waiver.

I do want to begin by noting the dedication and commitment of farmers and foresters in New Hampshire to reducing emissions and mitigating climate change on our land.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I appreciate the opportunity, and I appreciate this Committee. It is great to be back on the Agriculture Committee and the Conservation and Forestry Subcommittee this Congress.

there is plenty of money to be saved.

I am eager to explore how Congress can strengthen NRCS' role in combating climate change in the years to come.

I think we really need to drill down on the legacy IT issue in Federal Government writ large, and really modernize not only to save money and be more secure but to give the American people the kind of service they are rightly expecting in…

I am committed to ensuring that Congress does its part to eliminate duplication, overlap, and fragmentation to achieve billions in savings.

But how might agencies better identify trends in the types of programs or operations that appear in the annual duplication report year after year, in order to address the root causes of that duplication, overlap, or fragmentation?

Thank you, Comptroller General Dodaro, and your dedicated staff at the Government Accountability Office, for your valuable work and insights.

Progress made by the Executive Branch and Congress to address some of the more than 1,100 actions and recommendations made in these reports has improved agency performance and resource management.

Currently, the United States Mint spends nearly twice as much money producing the penny and nickel as the coins are actually worth.