For the record, I totally agree with that statement.

Someone asked Buckminster Fuller, the famous architect, for advice on how to live a long life. His answer was 'always use the bannister.'

Fifteen percent is the gap?

Take note of what she just said. Twenty-five percent of the residents in Aroostook County today are over 65. That's extraordinary.

My concern about that--and we'll talk to others about it--this is a rule that the--CMS is the federal agency...

We've really got to work on that because it would be awful to have somebody who's ready, wants a mission, wants to do it but they can't wait for nine months or a year.

Every day that you delay a nursing-home placement, the veteran is happier and the taxpayers are happier.

I like the idea. In other words, additional federal funds not generally but targeted toward workforce retention?

It seems to me to start with your testimony, as I mentioned, the problem that you had with the VA wasn't with the programs or the adequacy, it was the time, and I'm delighted my office could help, but it shouldn't take that step to get…

So the problem wasn't the service, it was the time to get the service; is that correct?

We want to keep that permanent.

Well, I think that's--that's something that you're going to have to be thinking about because it ties back to the workforce problem.

I've told my staff I want to be the falls senator; without falling.

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