Mr. President, I am going to begin my comments, but I am told by the majority leader he may want to come in and do wrapup, and I am perfectly comfortable with him coming in and interrupting me if he does get to the floor to do that. Mr…

Mr. President, I was unavoidably detained during rollcall vote No. 160 on the motion to invoke cloture on Leahy amendment No. 1183. Had I been present I would have voted nay. ____________________

the Care Planning Act is not going to try to fix all the challenges of advanced illness care but has targeted an effort.

So the standard is, the person making the determination or the review is not necessarily a medical professional, but they are somebody who is using medically professional information, is that correct?

How arbitrary is the determination of which cases you review and which ones you do not?

There is a fine line between recovering payments that are clearly improper and questioning a judgment call made by a professional at a moment in time.

It appears to me that changes are desperately needed to be made to the current law.

It was a great comment because having been a chamber president of a Chamber in a large metropolitan statistical area, they all compete with each other.

I have been in Congress for 15 years. I have been in the Senate for 9 years.

I am glad to see the encouraging signs from Chairman Harkin and Ranking Member Alexander, recently, of their commitment to bring a WIA bill to the floor in a bipartisan effort, and try and get it done this year.

I want to repeat my thanks to Chairman Murray of the subcommittee, to Chairman Harkin of the full committee, and to Ranking Member Alexander for their commitment to reauthorize, in a bipartisan fashion, the Workforce Investment Act.

I remain committed, along with Patty Murray, my former chairman, now Bob Casey, our chairman of the subcommittee, to see to it that that happens.

Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 275, noes 139, answered ``present'' 1, not voting 19, as…

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