It is patently unfair to ask physicians or others paid under the fee schedule to live with the sword of Damocles hanging...
We don't have to start over; we can build on what works and what is already working out there in some places.
We need to replace it with a sensible policy that reflects a more modern care delivery system.
How do we make a transition that makes sense in the delivery of health care, as well as fiscal sense?
The Sustainable Growth Rate Formula is fundamentally broken.
I suspect the chairman and I and all the committee have a boatload of questions.
We are grateful for the co-sponsorship of Senators Patty Murray and Tom Udall.
I come from Seattle where we spend a lot of effort politically passing initiatives for low-income housing.
we are setting in motion a policy to pay for a reduction in corporate taxes down to 25 percent by taking it away from ho...
I appreciate the leadership sponsoring S. 507, the Manhattan Project National Historical Park.
There is one in Seattle named the McDermott Place which has 54 homeless veterans living in it, so I know about how it is...
Russell Long, the old Finance Chairman in the Senate, once said that tax policy is 'Don't tax you, don't tax me, tax the...
Transparency doesn't, you know, buy us necessarily a pain free experience, but I think it makes it work better.
But this notion that somehow torturing the discretionary budget and torturing the defense budget in particular to force ...
I think it is a realistic look at the next 5--sorry--at fiscal year 2014, and then planning beyond.
The President's budget proposal represents a responsible attempt to forge a grand bargain on the budget.
I want to echo the chairman's comments and thanks to both Secretary McHugh and General Odierno for their outstanding lea...
There is going to be increasing pressure to separate that legal process from the command if there is not visible progres...
