each of us privileged to serve in this Chamber knows that the Senate and each of our offices could not operate successfully without the assistance of talented and dedicated staff. One former Senator who certainly knew this was my fellow…

included in the half trillion dollars in new taxes in this health reform bill is a tax hike of $20 billion on medical devices, a $20 billion excise tax on lifesaving medical devices. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office and Joint…

included in the new taxes in this health reform is a tax hike of $20 billion on medical devices. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation both confirmed these excise taxes will not--will not--be borne by…

this amendment protects the rural health care delivery system by exempting critical access hospitals from dangerous payment cuts by the Independent Payment Advisory Board. This board is an unelected and unaccountable body, nefarious to be…

This motion commits the bill back to the Finance Committee with instructions to repeal ``the four rationers'' of health care reform. These four horsemen of the rationing apocalypse are the Patient Center Outcomes Research Institute…

I rise today to join my colleagues in support of this bipartisan agreement. Yes, there is a bipartisan agreement in regard to this bill. It can be done. It has been reached by the Senate Finance and Commerce Committees on the…