The President's budget comes down to a simple proposition: helping working families and the middle class get ahead and reducing the deficit are not mutually exclusive.

I hope the results of those meetings will be that these Tribes that haven't been able to participate in the program, will be able to get their feet on the ground, and get started.

We need to really reduce the risk of fire and that means directing resources to do forest management.

We certainly are not going to go backwards; at least certainly the majority in the United States Senate is not going to go backwards.

Unfortunately, not all Medicare Advantage is created equal.

As long as I am chair of this committee, I will fight any effort to engage in intergenerational warfare.

Nobody wants America to return to that time.

It is essential. People can't take jobs if they can't afford a place to live.

Fifteen years after the law was written, the insurance companies, the big insurance companies, are still finding ways to drag their feet on carrying out the parity law with respect to mental health.

I strongly support efforts to extend this exemption period from 9 years to 13, ensuring parity between small molecules and biologics.

Americans deserve better and more affordable access to prescription drugs, and we can find bipartisan results-oriented solutions to advance that goal.

I just want a package so we can land this program in Rhode Island that I have been working on, I think, now for 8 years.

The President's budget comes down to a simple proposition: helping working families and the middle class get ahead and reducing the Federal deficit are not mutually exclusive.

If Congress fails to act on this front, patients--and especially seniors--will inevitably suffer.

I am a very strong supporter of accelerated approval for these very exciting new drugs for Alzheimer's.

That's a sharp contrast to the Republican approach to the Federal budget since the beginning of this year, which amounts to demanding secret negotiations on unspecified cuts to Federal programs while holding hostage the full faith and…

We locked in the first-ever set of financial penalties for pricing gouging in Medicare.

I strongly support this approach, especially as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services continue to steadily implement the laws that are already on the books.