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I am concerned that this budget attempts to go around the FRA, the Fiscal Responsibility Act.

I appreciate the somewhat tempered approach this year compared to the previous budgets.

The discontinuation of the WVPRC gives me great concern that the unique issues facing WV and Appalachia will be greatly diminished going forward.

Your budget requests a $2 billion increase over FY23 to this agency to carry out these programs.

I am hopeful that we will, once again, be able to come together and produce a bipartisan 2025 bill.

Most of America would begin laughing at that.

Do you have a firm and affirmative oversight plan to make sure that, you know, you are redirecting funds if somebody has got an idea that is not going to work let us move on?

I am 100% supportive of that goal as studies show patients treated at NCI-Designated Cancer Centers have higher survival and recovery rates.

The budget proposes $49.8 billion in funding for NIH, including 21st Century Cures and ARPA-H.

The last time the NLRB tried this, a study found that this policy led to 376,000 fewer jobs and $33.3 billion in lost output across the economy.

You have the ability to withdraw funding if it looks like these things are--that is some of the hardest things to do, as we know.

We have got to do better here. I mean, we are really losing a generation.

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.

Thank you, Chair Baldwin.

If you want to know why that divide is becoming bigger and bigger, rural areas have been left behind, the money has not gone appropriately for the challenges they have. And that is so important.

I want to thank Chair Baldwin for working together, bipartisan, and the success of our process depends on finding common ground.

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