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

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.

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

Terrific, and we will continue to do that.

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

So do we need more assistance--funding assistance?

Thank you, Senator Hawley.

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

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…

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

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.

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 following committee…

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

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…

For too long Americans have been grappling with the skyrocketing costs of prescription drugs, and the current trajectory for what Americans, and particularly seniors on Medicare Part D, pay is simply unsustainable, and the status quo is…

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