Maggie Hassan

Every worker should be able to save enough to cover their expenses during their retirement years, but we are here today because we know that's not always the case.

I think that a--first, a focus on Social Security is really essential because that is the primary retirement vehicle for most Americans, including most women.

According to the retirement confidence survey, 38 percent of divorced women have less than $1,000 saved for retirement, and 42 percent of never-married women.

I think this Congress can act to make it easy for employers to offer incentives, like in a match, an emergency savings account.

I also think it is important to have portable retirement benefits so that when women do leave the workforce, they are able to take their benefits with them.

I just think you will need to have some flexibility there and supports available.

I am concerned about the vetting process for sponsors.

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

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

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, our health-care system was grappling with an unprecedented workforce shortage.

Fortunately, Congress has legislation to address this gap in coverage with a bipartisan bill entitled, the Nutrition Counseling Aiding Recovery for Eating Disorders Act.

I am working on a bipartisan basis to promote domestic R&D, including through bipartisan tax legislation with Senators Young, Cortez Masto, Portman, and Sasse.

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

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

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.

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

I look forward to continuing to work with Ranking Member Paul to save taxpayer dollars and deliver government services more efficiently and effectively.

Thank you, Senator Hawley.

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…

Terrific, and we will continue to do that.

I was glad to support it.

The Federal Government spends upward of $175 billion annually on improper payments.

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

I am grateful to Comptroller General Gene Dodaro and to the GAO analysts assisting him today for their testimony.

Currently, the United States Mint spends nearly twice as much money producing the penny and nickel as the coins are actually worth.