cities like Baltimore, Philadelphia, have tremendous problems with drugs and hopefully that will go part of the way for solving some of those problems.

Young people are discouraged from coming forth because they don't think that there's going to be the money there to fund their project.

I think we all do need a sense of urgency about how we can come to grips with this and accelerate what we're going to do.

It is very special to me because my own very dear father died of the consequences of Alzheimer's, now 25 years ago.

If we had stayed on the 3-percent growth initiated by Arlen Specter, where would we be now? At about $40 billion?

I think it is outrageous that there--you have independent community pharmacists that are essentially being locked out of the opportunity to participate in a preferred pharmacy network.

It is certainly fair for the program to expect that if the plans are securing discounts, that some of that benefit would come back to the program and to the taxpayers.

The automatic enrollment feature where you have to opt out has also been effective.

The Saver's Credit is a very valuable tool. Six million workers today are getting a benefit.

We have to, first, protect Social Security, make sure it is strong and remains strong.

The proposal from Treasury to introduce the myRA program is a step in the right direction.

The Saver's Credit has worked. Millions of Americans today have retirement accounts who would not have retirement accounts but for the Saver's Credit.

The President's decision to withdraw what I believe is the ill-conceived policy of chained CPI should put an end to treating Social Security as another trading piece in budget negotiations.

What we need to do, in our mind, or things that we should be looking at, are strengthening Social Security, as has been said, expanding access to low-cost and quality plans, such as the myRA.

My colleague, Senator Harkin, has proposed a way to do this, his USA Retirement Accounts. It is legislation, I believe, with great merit.

the risk of an insecure retirement is especially acute for women, for minorities, and for lower-income Americans.

I think it is critically important that we do a long-term surface transportation reauthorization, to give predictability to our transportation program in this Country.

I just hoped you would be very visible with those agencies that are not meeting the goal and certainly not complying with the spirit, that we want prime contracts for small businesses just not subcontracts.