It should not count in the first place if it is open 1 day per month.

Achieving global food security is not only the right thing to do, it is the smart thing to do.

Your ability to do that in Liberal is just what we want to have the ability to do everyplace else.

There are moral arguments for dealing with hunger at home and abroad, but moral imperative aside, there is self-interest to consider. American interests are at stake, too. The productivity and competitiveness of American agriculture is…

Show me a nation that cannot feed itself, and I will show you a nation that is in chaos.

There are nine CBOCs in Kansas that do not have a full-time physician that are still listed as facilities.

I rise to visit for a moment with my colleagues, both Republican and Democratic, about the ongoing debate we are having over the appropriateness of having policy issues debated and then decided in appropriations bills. We are now at the…

If you live within 25 miles of a CBOC, it does not provide the service you need, what happens?

I ask unanimous consent that morning business be extended until 6 p.m. today, with Senators permitted to speak for up to 10 minutes each. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I want to listen to the veterans' voices and make sure that we do a better job of providing the best care for them.

I would like to hear how we got to the point that we now appear to be and to see if there is something we can do about that.

If the veteran cannot get the service he or she needs at the CBOC, it does not count.

I think you are missing that--you are not missing anything, Mr. Chairman. Excuse me for suggesting that you are.

We want the best possible health care.

Many of the concerns and complaints that I have raised over a long period of time, in your view, are resolved by what happened yesterday at the VA?

Let me highlight a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that was released in December of 2015 on FDA's information technology infrastructure.

as my colleagues know, we are in the process of discussing an appropriations bill--called an omnibus bill. For the first time in a long time we have passed an appropriations bill in the Senate. That is progress. We are working on a second…

I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. NIH Research