There is a reimbursement paradox that you experience or your fiscal people experience.

I think it might help to put a nice, bright light over that doorway so that everybody knows where it is.

It is time to be bold and have this Administration assert what its goal is here, and do that specifically.

I think everybody who either has, or has a loved one who has multiple conditions is keenly aware of the sense of confusion and loneliness.

Thank you, Chairman and thank you gentlemen for being here.

We already have proposals to basically wipe out Medicare a decade from now.

I would strongly urge you to push up into the administration, to invite them to set a goal for you to achieve.

We reward, systemically, the worst performers and we punish the best performers.

I introduced legislation last year to expand work sharing, which just over 20 States have adopted or implemented.

I urge the Congress to provide the full President's budget amount for the LWCF so that this important project can receive this needed funding.

I appreciate the opportunity to present this testimony in support of the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) in the fiscal year 2012 Interior, environment, and related agencies appropriations bill.

The proposed $900 million is the congressionally authorized amount for the program and seeks to renew focus on the promise of the LWCF.

We're losing our competitive edge, in terms of not just military technology, but so many technologies.

This could be the most important topic we consider long-term.

I think we're all fortunate to have your leadership on this important committee.

there is a terrible cost to real Rhode Islanders and to real Americans if we degrade Social Security and Medicare

We will protect our promises to our seniors.

if we are going to go back to privatizing that as was tried a few years ago, hand that over to Wall Street