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This is not the way we want to do our business. This is not the way we want patients to be treated, and I find it as appalling, I believe, as this Committee does.

The debt we owe your loved ones and all our veterans can never be repaid, and we must do all we can to ensure that they receive the best quality health care that they have earned and rightly deserve.

I lay the responsibility of the patient care directly at the feet of VA and VHA management at every level.

I would say through the Presiding Officer that is my understanding as well. And I think this was a very good example of everyone operating in good faith. I, for one, am prepared for the Senator from Oklahoma to proceed, but I would note…

I do not hear from anybody who has had a wonderful experience with Internet payday lenders.

Is there anything that individual States can do to regulate online lenders that are domiciled outside of their States?

Have you taken a look at any of the online disclosures that they have----

To me, most startling, the CFPB found that 22 percent of consumers secure these loans with public assistance or retirement income sources.

I want to put this issue into a broader context just to illustrate how pervasive of problem it is.

As Senator Collins pointed out, lenders in Maine must be licensed to make payday loans lawfully.

What the Bureau found is precisely what Senator Nelson and Senator Collins were describing

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, for holding this hearing to examine the impact of payday loans on American consumers and for assembling such an impressive group of witnesses.

So there is not that kind of disclosure in dollars and cents?

Our students need one-on-one personal devices.

Due in no small part to the leadership of Senators Rockefeller and Snowe, the E-Rate program from its inception focused on providing high-capacity transmission services to libraries and schools.

Maine was a forerunner in the one-to-one computing trend with then-Governor Angus King working hard to provide all our middle-school students with laptop computers.

I do want to acknowledge the bipartisan effort and support for the E-Rate Program by Chairman Rockefeller and Maine's original E-Rate champion, Olympia Snowe.

We would not have connectivity and all that it brings to our schools and libraries if it were not for E-Rate.