Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, the Grant Reporting Efficiency and Agreements Transparency Act, introduced by Representatives Virginia Foxx and Jimmy Gomez, would standardize reporting for recipients of Federal grants and cooperative agreements. Grant recipients often have to report the same information in different ways because Federal agencies do not use the same forms or even the same terms to describe required information. Madam Speaker, I have often said that the most important thing that we must do in our lives is to operate in an effective and efficient manner, and that also includes this Congress. Under this bill, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the Secretary of Health and Human Services would be required to establish governmentwide data standards for grant reporting--again, efficiency and effectiveness. The bill would encourage OMB and HHS to make the information that grant recipients report fully searchable and machine-readable. This would provide greater transparency into the money spent on the grants because spending data would be more usable. The bill also would require that data collected from grant recipients be published on a single public portal. Madam Speaker, I thank the distinguished gentlewoman, Ms. Foxx, for working with Representative Connolly last Congress on the use of nonproprietary identifiers for grants and grantees.…”