I hope to share it with everybody that I know back home because it makes an incredible case for how we can do what we need to do to award teachers the salaries that they deserve for the important work that they do.

This isn't just a number. That is nearly 65,000 Hoosiers losing the dignity that comes from having a job.

There has been a lot of focus today on how this proposal will destroy jobs, and rightfully so.

It is incredibly reckless to rob people of their livelihoods in order to live up to a campaign talking point.

At a time when we have nearly 7 million jobs that cannot be filled, it is incredibly reckless to rob people of their livelihoods in order to live up to a campaign talking point.

We applaud you for the foresight in creating this Subcommittee and leading this conversation forward.

I have spent much of the past 2 months studying VA's EHR modernization and the Military Health System GENESIS Program.

So, with that, I am ready to begin.

This Committee, in my brief experience in Congress, has lived up to its reputation as the last frontier of bipartisanship in Congress, and that is largely thanks, I think, to Dr. Roe's leadership.

Thank you all for being here today for the first hearing of the Subcommittee on Technology Modernization.

I think that this project has great promise, and in addition to the care of our veterans, we need to focus on accountability.

I thank the gentleman from Minnesota, who has been the foremost leader in the House of Representatives for a very long time to permanently repeal the medical device tax. Mr. Speaker, there are more than 7,000 medical device companies in…