It has been the deadliest outbreak of tornadoes in nearly 40 years.

There will now be free annual wellness visits.

I am disturbed and troubled that there are those who would destroy our basic democratic principles for their own political aggrandizement.

Buried within the Affordable Care Act was something called the Independent Payment Advisory Board that was a panel of independent experts, not part of Congress, not part of Health and Human Services.

The Independent Payment Advisory Board was not a death panel. It is not about rationing care.

the Republican budget that was put out for discussion a few weeks ago, to me, absolutely breaks that promise for the future.

I want to recognize the work that Senator Whitehouse has been doing consistently to try to get Medicare and Medicaid to be better purchasers of things like health information technology, of primary care, the things that we know work, as…

Well, if the Republicans win, you are going to have a good Medicare program, but not me.

I thank you very much.

The donut hole... will be gradually filled in over time so that we will never again have seniors who cannot afford their medications.

First of all, health reform, national health reform does not cut benefits for seniors.

But we now face a stark choice as to how to do that, and that choice will have a profound effect on seniors today, but also the seniors of tomorrow.

We cannot let them live and die in poverty. We owe them the final days of security and dignity.

Regulation of the CCR under subtitle C could have negative impacts on the reuse or beneficial use of these materials and may create liability concerns related to past reuse of these materials and applications, such as construction and…

I am not sure I understand, since the concentration levels are quite similar between fly ash and asphalt, why we are singling out asphalt or singling out fly ash for this issue.

What will corporate liability lawyers tell companies about creating wall board for use in homes, hazardous material?

We need and deserve both.

I think we should treat it a lot differently with it. I am not interested in trying to pass this thing off--especially try to force it on the consumers if it is toxic.