U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) today released Twenty Questions: Government Studies That Will Leave you Scratching Your Head, an oversight report highlighting 20 hard-to-justify, taxpayer-funded studies that diverted more than $35 million that could have been better spent researching treatments for cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, and viral infections such as Zika and Ebola. Along with the report, Flake also introduced the Federal Research Transparency and Accountability Act, a bill to ensure federal research dollars are better directed towards supporting transformative science while rooting out unnecessary spending on lower priority projects.