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Levee districts like Sny face significant challenges, including record-high diesel prices and shortages of skilled engineering workers.

I will continue to advocate for them until every family has access to reliable and affordable transit.

I strongly urge this Committee to continue advocating for Gateway and overseeing the delivery of grant funding for the crucial project.

We have disabled our young people by not giving them the proper education.

Last Congress, I was proud to work with Congressman Kind and my House and Senate colleagues to enact the Chronic Wasting Disease Research and Management Act.

As we learned the hard way in 2014 and 2015, biosecurity plays an enormous role in mitigating the spread of the disease, and we want to ensure strong measures are in place across all production methods.

I hear all-to-often from folks back home and across the country about their ongoing struggles with the high-path outbreak, which has only reinforced my commitment to treating food security as national security.

If we don't do that, and look no further than the state of Idaho to see the evidence, if we don't do that, it goes up in smoke.

One of the things that concerns me as well as some others, I think, on the dais today is the ability of the National Park Service to manage new land, given the backlog that we already have.

On April 6 this year, your agency notified this committee of the discovery of widespread diversion of U.S. branded food aid in Tigray.

We appreciate this hearing's focus on examining the role that pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) play in the American healthcare system.

We need to identify avenues for lowering out-of-pocket costs, increasing competition, and promoting access to lifesaving innovation--and we need to do so in a fiscally responsible manner.

In many ways, Medicare Part D reflects an unprecedented success story, coming in massively under budget, with low and stable monthly premiums--and with a generic drug dispensing rate of roughly 90 percent.

That said, much has changed in the past 2 decades, and we have an obligation both to build on the aspects of Part D that work well and to address access and affordability gaps where we find them.

Today, I am introducing legislation called the Lower Drug Costs for Families Act, and what it will do is penalize pharmaceutical companies for increasing the price of their drugs faster than the rate of inflation.

Obviously, transparency is key.

We have got to figure out how to strengthen Medicare.

We have to change that.