Chair Hassan and I have co-sponsored a bill, the Duplication Scoring Act, to help fix these sorts of problems.

I was glad to support it.

I look forward to continuing to work with Ranking Member Paul to save taxpayer dollars and deliver government services more efficiently and effectively.

I am grateful to Comptroller General Gene Dodaro and to the GAO analysts assisting him today for their testimony.

Thank you.

the Federal Government spends upward of $175 billion annually on improper payments.

Terrific, and we will continue to do that.

A catalyst to our recidivism crisis is that our justice-involved population does not receive adequate healthcare, particularly when it comes to treating mental health and addiction.

I applaud this bold investment. I want to ask about your goals for this funding.

So do we need more assistance--funding assistance?

It has also created a global food security and malnutrition crisis, which you know very well.

That is great. Thank you.

I have heard from some of the members of the Nepalese community in New Hampshire that we are also seeing even faster rates of spread of the virus in Nepal.

I hope you will take this under advisement and get the guidance out as quickly as you can.

Mr. President, I have a request for one committee to meet during today's session of the Senate. It has the approval of the Majority and Minority leaders. Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the…

For years since I began running for Congress, I have been calling on Medicare to be able to negotiate the price of prescription drugs, a policy that has broad support amongst the American people and would generate literally billions of…

I hope that we decide to do that again, and this time to expand things like access to dental coverage for Medicare beneficiaries.

I am so pleased to partner with my friend and colleague, Republican Congressman David McKinley, on bipartisan legislation to create billions in savings for Medicare Part D beneficiaries.