I think it is important, since the need is great, that the kind of contracts you have will enable the Indian Health Services and the Native Hawaiian Health Services to continue to be a part of the providing of services.

We must keep our commitment to these veterans, which is why I am grateful to the VA and the veterans service organizations here today for their testimony in support of the bill.

I would like to thank Senators Collins, King, and Markey for their close sponsorship of S. 683, my Keeping Our Commitment to Disabled Veterans Act, which would ensure coverage for around 350 veterans in Hawaii, some 20,000 veterans across…

The 350 veterans in Hawaii, that is really a large number of veterans who would be impacted.

I am glad that the VA is supportive as well as the veterans organizations across the country, because we have a lot of veterans who need long-term care, and we want to keep those facilities supported.

This bill would extend the requirement for the VA to provide nursing home care to certain veterans with service-connected disabilities through December 31, 2018.

Do you feel pretty confident that we will not let this program lapse? Because otherwise you have to have a Plan B.

this is the beginning, not the end. Today, we claim an important victory because of thousands of people across the country. There are not enough Senators who support this Republican healthcare plan, so there will not be a vote this week…

you might think that for the last 7 years, the major complaint people had about the Affordable Care Act was that it hurt rich people, because they seem to be the only people who stand to gain with this Republican Senate healthcare plan…

we are all one diagnosis away from having a serious illness. Lots of us believe that getting a serious illness is something that happens to other people. I was one of them. My moment of reckoning came 2 months ago. During a routine…

there are two things Americans need to know about this Republican healthcare plan. The first is that it is going to make insurance more expensive, and the second is that it is going to make it harder to get healthcare in the first place…

the Senate recently passed the Department of Veterans Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act. This legislation is intended to improve the VA by strengthening the process of holding nonperforming VA employees accountable…

Tuberculosis is the leading global infectious killer. It takes the lives of 1.8 million people annually around the world.

I am calling for a STOP Pain Initiative to be led by the NIH.

I join my colleagues, Senator Murray and others, and I thank Senator Murray for her leadership on this important issue. Right now, 13 of our male colleagues are sequestered away somewhere, plotting--and I use that word, and that is an…

earlier this month, the Senate passed by voice vote the Department of Veterans Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act of 2017. I recognize this bill is the result of a bipartisan compromise, and I commend Senator Tester…

I want to know that this is not a reflecting sort of view of the political winds here in terms of privatizing services.

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