I hope the committee will move on to other efforts to address cost and improve quality in our health care system.

Payment reform so that doctors are compensated for keeping people healthy rather than starved on that front.

Did you consider setting up a risk pool rather than a reimbursement system for those individuals?

There ought to be no partisan difference about honoring a patient's and a family's wishes as they near the end of life.

the consequences of a rapid exit are both predictable and unacceptable

Mr. President, today, the Senate passed the Food and Drug Administration Reauthorization Act of 2017, FDARA, to reauthorize user fees and other programs at the FDA to ensure that new, safe, and effective treatments get to patients in need…

Mr. President, we know that the quality of teachers and principals are two of the most important in-school factors related to student achievement. Yet the pipeline into the profession has been neglected. If we want to improve our schools…

Mr. President, what I would like to speak about is a new form of fossil fuel-funded climate denial spin that has just entered the climate debate. They are always up to something, and here is their latest. The Trump administration's two…

Climate denial, on the other hand, avoids peer review as if it were Kryptonite, so this call for peer review of the contest between climate science and climate denial is almost comical, except for the evil intent behind it and, of course…

Mr. President, let's go back to the basics here. The basic fact is that the scientific truth of climate change threatens the business model of enormous industries that spew carbon dioxide, and it challenges the ideology of rightwing…

Mr. President, I think we are waiting for Senator Grassley to come, and then we will be ready to proceed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Ohio.

Thank you, Mr. President, and thank you, Mr. Chairman. Chairman Grassley has been a wonderful colleague in this effort. It is the culmination of years of work, including multiple committee hearings, briefings at home in Rhode Island and…

Mr. President, I am here to speak about something else, but let me take just a moment and thank my chairman for what he has done. I had the experience of serving on the HELP Committee with Chairman Alexander and Ranking Member Murray when…

Opposition letter dated August 1, 2017 to Hon. John Thune and Hon. Bill Nelson from Sheldon Whitehouse, United States Senator.

We have recently passed the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act.

I want to thank you for the terrific work you have already done to try to make sure our country is prepared for bioterror threats.

I believe strongly in the value that older adults provide to their communities.

If confirmed, I will work to keep prevention at OASH a top priority.