Early on, President Trump stopped flights from China, and then, Europe.

The President invoked the DPA ordering Puritan to make the swabs we needed.

This proved to be a terrible policy, as we found out, with the consequences for our seniors, with almost 2,000 nursing home residents in Michigan having died.

It has been the efforts of the long-held Democrat leadership that always complains about not having the outcomes we want.

There is no doubt that Governor Whitmer's order to force nursing homes to accept patients with active COVID-19 infections worsened the state of nursing homes.

Unbelievable. Unfortunately, Michigan was one of the handful of States, about five States, where the Governor issued an executive order forcing nursing homes to admit COVID-19-positive patients.

Until we stop opposing educational choice for minorities, like the D.C. Promise, the complaints ring hollow.

I think it is cynical to even keep bringing it up as legitimate.

first of all, I want to thank my wonderful colleagues for their leadership, Senator Merkley and Senator Baldwin, for not just being on the floor today and speaking out but speaking out every day for introducing the Equality Act, of which I…

We really need to have this discussion about racial and ethnic disparities in our healthcare system.

If we don't act, we are going to be facing scary, significant, and I don't know what the impact will be on these budget shortfalls.

We have got to do better.

I fought to increase dedicated funding for HCBS and we put it in the HEROES Act in the House.

We did a lot of that in the CARES Act in a bipartisan way for Medicare.

I believe that the way the leverage ratio requirements in the program are currently drafted, it unfairly punishes companies such as La Colombe.

I think that is a mistake.

Early reports, of course, of deaths from COVID have found a startlingly high rate of mortality among the African American community.

It is so critical that diverse populations, especially those with vulnerable populations, be adequately represented in the clinical studies.