The bill called the Community Integration Act that I introduced earlier this year to get rid of the Medicaid institutional bias--well, it's there.

Thank you very much, Mr. Lauer.

We're making some progress. We are. We're better off than we were last year or 20 years ago.

last year, only 17.6 percent of persons with disabilities had jobs, compared to 64 percent of people without a disability.

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will please come to order.

Both Senator Alexander and I will have opening statements.

I wish to thank Chairman Harkin for his superlative service to the State of Iowa and to our Nation for more than four decades.

We want to work with states in a collaborative effort.

It is 3.6 million folks who would not need SNAP or as much SNAP if the minimum wage were increased.

we want to help people move towards self-sufficiency the right way by helping them to secure and maintain jobs.

We need to do a better job of at USDA to ensure that states take this program seriously.

Do you believe that raising taxes on alternative energy and raising their cost of doing business will lead to job losses?

I never had an opportunity to ask him a question where he had to answer.

I believe that many, if not all of us, share similar goals with respect to the Internet.

The Internet has been successful precisely because of a hands-off approach.

Then for the two of you again--and this will be my last question--in your opinion, has there been any widespread anti-competitive behavior within the Internet ecosystem that would warrant a prescriptive regulator solution imposed by the…

I am highly skeptical about the prospects of expansive FCC regulation over every aspect of the Internet.

I am going to ask Mr. McDowell to comment on something that was in Mr. Burnham's testimony.