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…

Your openness today will help us know how to best help you.

The VA also needs to invest even more in telehealth and remote patient monitoring.

I support these efforts, but I want to hear from you today how we can help you avoid situations where you don't have the funds needed to provide the care veterans expect.

I hope today's hearing will cover all aspects of VA, and I urge my colleagues to leave no stone unturned.

Thank you for holding this hearing to review the VA's fiscal year 2018 budget request and the 2019 advanced appropriation request.

It makes me extremely nervous that you say you can absorb these costs.

I just want to know if there is anything either on the authorizing side... that we can do to help you to expand telehealth and telemedicine.

Energy assurance at our Air Force bases in the United States supports the service's ability to execute operations.

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

I am happy to see this investment into the program, especially given the current deficiencies.

I want to know where VA is on getting a new CBOC for Hilo because this is the highest priority for Big Island veterans.

I ask unanimous consent that Calendar No. 120, H.R. 1628, be referred to the Committee on Finance for the purpose of conducting a public hearing. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Mr. McCONNELL. I object. The PRESIDING OFFICER…

I have a parliamentary inquiry. I have information that indicates that approximately 300 amendments were considered and that of those amendments, 161 amendments offered by Republican members of the committee were adopted during the…

I want to give a status report on this bill. Right now, we think it is with the 13 men who are working on it in secret; they will show it to Republican lobbyists, and then they will send it over to the CBO for a score, and eventually the…

we Democrats are here on the floor to take a stand against a bill that is a disaster for our Nation's healthcare-- Medicaid patients, families with loved ones in nursing homes, people who struggle with opioid addiction, women who rely on…

I worry that the way the FCC has implemented its USF mandate does not always account for that uniqueness.

the largest carriers have strategic commitments to nonrural businesses and are underinvesting in a way that affects the largest number of rural customers across the country.