I commend you for your leadership as a member of the Senate Special Committee on Aging.
My goal in buying health insurance for my employees is never to pay for an MRI twice in one day.
People may disagree about particular cases, but I hope that we can all recognize that powerful special interests have a constant interest in...
Unfortunately for the Ranking Member, Oklahoma is one of the three States that has a higher percentage than Rhode Island of structurally def...
I will just thank both of you for your interest in improving regulation for the American people and how best to regulate.
I appreciate the difficulty of that choice, and I appreciate the courtesy both of the Chairman, Senator Lieberman, and the Ranking Member, S...
I have introduced the Regulatory Capture Prevention Act to create an office within the Office of Management and Budget that would investigat...
I complimented you on the intensity of the effort you put into getting the Recovery Act funding out into Rhode Island.
One of the solutions that we have proposed in Rhode Island is to put tolls on I-95 to generate some of our own funding since the Federal fun...
Are you looking in any way to try to improve the efficiency of these programs, their acceptance, and their legitimacy in the eyes of the fis...
I would ask if you would work with NOAA to start thinking in terms of more creative management of the species, working with the industry.
I would urge you to relook at those numbers.
Rhode Island lands more fish than any other State except New Jersey, and we don't have representation on there.
NOAA routinely adopts these regulations for Federal waters, and we do have some activity, not as pronounced, but some activity in Federal wa...
It is, Madam Chairman. And we have tried in several different years to alter the composition, and we will try again.
It is vital across the country.
We will continue to fund those in this President's budget, but some of the others, like the small harbors money, are going to be cut.
I want to thank you, both Secretary Darcy and General Van Antwerp, for the extraordinary response of COE of Engineers to the floods last yea...
