It was a lot of those same issues, is the fact that they were overhauling the entire Medicaid program without a signific...
I want to close my remarks by also warning the residents who have been affected by these storms of the many scams that h...
We are learning how being prepared today can make the difference between safety and danger, and in many cases literally ...
You shouldn't be exchanging business cards during a disaster.
It was evident to me in rereading it that we have learned many of the lessons of Katrina, but we still have a long ways ...
We should take that motto to heart, and from this hearing today I can see the huge amount of progress that has been made...
Senators Bill Nelson, Marco Rubio, Bob Casey, and Susan Collins have introduced the Protecting Seniors During Disasters ...
we had done much better planning. In fact, our hospitals had returned to normal functioning.
As the then Chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, along with Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, I led a bi...
Older adults matter.
Today, even as we meet, yet another hurricane, Maria, is battering a region still struggling to recover, and it is expec...
We have expanded our efforts to improve emergency preparedness and response across the entire country, and we have empha...
But, if we're doing--if we're executing on every ounce of capacity, and it's not adequate, sounds to me like we need mor...
The second question is, Don't we have sailors on the bridge with binoculars anymore?
I mean, can you give me an answer, specifically? Aren't there radar systems on these ships that would detect anything wi...
Do we need to be talking about increasing the capacity of the maintenance yards to cut down on that time off the ocean, ...
It's really unacceptable, in this day and age, with the technology that we have, to have something like this happen.
I support giving States more flexibility in plan design, but I think you quickly get into a thorny issue...
