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

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

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.

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

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

Thank you, Chair Baldwin.

I personally am not one of them.

Healthcare delivery systems in rural America are still very difficult and underfunded; we have the lowest life expectancies in rural America.

I acknowledge we are facing a very difficult spending climate, and we hope we can focus on bipartisan areas of need.

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.

What can NIH do to help expand the medical research footprint in rural states like West Virginia so we can tackle high disease burdens and low life expectancy?

I hope to, again, work in a bipartisan way to fund our joint priorities.

The way the bills that we all passed in a bipartisan way, and even the IRA (Inflation Reduction Act) bill, the way it's being implemented is different than the way we wrote it.