Promoting R&D investment in the U.S. is key to out-competing China.

Sen. Hassan's Mainstreaming Addiction Treatment Act eliminates the unnecessary and counterproductive requirement that prescribing providers obtain a waiver.

I was glad to support it.

I am committed to ensuring that Congress does its part to eliminate duplication, overlap, and fragmentation to achieve billions in savings.

I think we really need to drill down on the legacy IT issue in Federal Government writ large, and really modernize not only to save money and be more secure but to give the American people the kind of service they are rightly expecting in…

Chair Hassan and I have co-sponsored a bill, the Duplication Scoring Act, to help fix these sorts of problems.

Thank you, Senator Hawley.

Thank you, Comptroller General Dodaro, and your dedicated staff at the Government Accountability Office, for your valuable work and insights.

Thank you so much, Mr. Chair and Ranking Member Crapo, for this hearing.

Progress made by the Executive Branch and Congress to address some of the more than 1,100 actions and recommendations made in these reports has improved agency performance and resource management.

I look forward to working with you to bolster the committees that the USMCA created, to really make sure the voices of small businesses are heard.

Moving forward, Congress has to work to address the remaining inequities that limit access to mental health telehealth services for underserved communities.