I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 9, after line 5, insert the following: SEC. 7. FEDERAL USE IT OR LOSE IT LEASES ACT. (a) Reporting of…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Butler). Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Louisiana.

Madam President, I am here to talk about flood insurance, an issue facing Louisiana, and, I am sorry to say, an issue now facing the Presiding Officer's State. Floods can occur anywhere--for example, on the top of a mountaintop. People…

I thank Representative Cherfilus-McCormick for yielding. Madam Speaker, the treatment of Black men and boys in our society is not a new issue. It demands our urgent attention and decisive action. The statistics paint a grim picture. The…

I defer to Senator Collins.

Let us be clear, this is a point that needs to be made over and over again, these nutrition programs not only provide good nutrition, but anyone who understands the Meals on Wheels program knows that it is important it is not just the…

Bottom line is here, and what is of concern to this Committee is since 2016, despite increased demand that a massive increase in the number of seniors in America, funding for the Older Americans Act has gone down by nearly 20 percent after…

I am almost thinking, Senator Cassidy, that we should change the name of this Committee to the prevention committee.

I think it is incumbent upon us to say--to get our PBM reform legislation, which we worked on a bipartisan basis in this Committee, signed into law.

This year, the HELP Committee will need to pass legislation reauthorizing the program, and I am glad to join Chair Sanders in leading a bipartisan working group.

That is inexcusable in my mind.

Post-COVID, we need to look at and make sure the programs that we are authorizing work.

I think about these throw rugs that are easy to slip upon and somebody breaks their hip.

I love the idea that you are using--you are finding the win, win, win, if you will.

I am a little bit kind of befuddled how an agency over which we have jurisdiction declines to come to have oversight conducted.

I think about these throw rugs that are easy to slip upon and somebody breaks their hip.

Thank you, Chairman Sanders. And thank you all for being here. Really a great mission.

So, we have a choice, either we are going to respond to the crises facing seniors, adequately fund these programs, or we don't.