in December, Congress funded the training of 200 new physicians, including at least 100 psychiatrists or addiction medicine specialists, building off a bill that Senator Collins and I did, called the Opioid Workforce Act.
Hassan discusses funding for training new physicians to address mental health needs.
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Are there additional steps that Congress can take to protect the Federal workforce and career civil servants from undue political influence?
I am concerned about the possibility that if the legislation were written in such a way, or if contracting guidelines were scoped in such a way that companies could find loopholes, then that would be disastrous for us.
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