Dartmouth-Hitchcock saves about $43 million each year. And in 2016, they provided more than $172 million in community benefits.

What my number one concern is that the outcomes from the task force have credibility with our veteran community.

I think you would find the committee to be much more attentive to these details at this point.

I respectfully request that the subcommittee seriously examine leveraging innovative concepts to deliver veterans' health care, both economically and effectively.

I urge my colleagues on the subcommittee to work with the Veteran's Affairs Committee to develop these authorities.

Patients must always come first.

I just returned from outside these doors where there are thousands of young people who are calling for action on gun safety. I marched out with my Democratic colleagues, and I really wish that my Republican friends across the aisle had…

It is imperative that the Appropriations Committee continue to robustly fund the Choice program.

Opening Statement of McLane Kuster, Hon. Ann

I urge my colleagues to heed the lesson and deny VA's proposed consolidation of the medical services account and the community care account.

I was very pleased to hear your testimony about the VA research on the opioid epidemic, and I think it is very promising.

I rise to discuss the devastating impacts of climate change in my home State of New Hampshire and across our country. I want to start by commending our colleague Senator Whitehouse, who has been a fierce advocate for this issue and, as of…

I am pleased to join my colleague from Washington to talk about the challenge that women both here in the United States and across the world are facing from the excesses of this administration. What we have seen time and again is that the…

The U.S. Department of Agriculture plays a large role in improving rural America's infrastructure.

States have been doing their parts in raising revenues for transportation infrastructure.

We are very grateful for the TIGER bridge grants. It is very concerning that they don't appear in the President's budget.

Count me in to Senator Peters' comments about our concerns that this plan... isn't backed up with the kind of Federal investment.

So I look forward to your full response to the letter, Secretary Chao. But in the meantime, can you commit to working with Congress before any consumer protections are rolled back in the airline industry?