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“I really want to thank our Members on both sides of the aisle, and especially the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Burgess) and the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Guthrie), who has an identical bill, the House companion bill to this one. S. 652 revises the Public Health Service Act's expanding access to critical resources for the deaf and hard-of-hearing newborns and young children. It will boost training of healthcare professionals in helping these young parents and ensure that, in turn, they can help educate the patient's family members. This bill will also deliver relief to parents and caretakers of young children that have hearing loss, granting them important resources to aid in their care. Again, the Health Subcommittee vice chair, Brett Guthrie, is the author of the House companion. When the House today approves this legislation, which I assume it will, that means this bill will go to the President's desk and be signed into law. This is really important work that the Energy and Commerce Committee is doing, once again, in a big and bipartisan way. It is an important bill that will expand access to critical resources for deaf and hard-of-hearing newborns and young children. By updating and reauthorizing HRSA and CDC grants to help States treat children with hearing loss, we are doing our work to achieve better outcomes for patients. I am particularly pleased about the potential to harness new and improved data collection systems to improve access.…”