The health care law cuts Medicare payments to hospitals by more than $150 billion according to our estimates.

Madam Speaker, one of the things that we don't talk about very often is that there are different ways that people choose to serve. Some choose to serve in elected office. Some choose to serve in uniform. Judge Roll chose to serve in our…

I thank the gentleman from California for yielding. It's such an honor to be able to pay tribute to Ronald Reagan here on the House floor, especially remembering his 100th birthday. It was special about a week and a half ago to be in the…

Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to another of our colleagues from Arizona, Ed Pastor. (Mr. PASTOR of Arizona asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. S. 188 is a bill to honor the life and public service of Judge John McCarthy Roll, who was gunned down, along with others, at a community meeting in Tucson, Arizona. Judge Roll…

It is my understanding that the insurance experts, many insurance experts outside of government, all conclude that the long-term care program in this law, the so-called CLASS act, is likely to suffer from severe adverse selection.

National policy, that is what I am referring to.

But if indeed these premiums were to go up, clearly folks that are on Medicare, who have looked for some way to provide for their long-term care needs, will suffer.

But we have seen those specifics. Those are platitudes.

And we heard some platitudes about innovations in reimbursement, but no specific detail.

Right. So if that is the case, that is clearly going to hurt access for Medicare patients and most likely be very acute in rural areas.

So you have real concerns about the solvency of this program as it is constructed today.

So who should decide?

As we talk about trade deals, I guess my question to you, Madam Secretary, is that, is there a way to evaluate or to inform us of, for example, South Korea and their port security?

How safe are our rigs? Give me an assessment on, for example, our LOOP, which supplies a lot of oil and stuff for the rest of the country.

Mr. President, I come to the Senate floor today to discuss an issue of great importance to small businesses, the drivers of this Nation's economy. In the same way the interstate highway system and the railroads revolutionized transport…

I think the peer review process needs to ensure that the peers are absolutely independent.

Mr. President, I rise today in strong support of the McConnell amendment No. 13 that would completely repeal President Obama's, in my view, unconstitutional health care bill. Of course, I was an active participant in the debate last…