Mr. President, I am going to begin my comments, but I am told by the majority leader he may want to come in and do wrapup, and I am perfectly comfortable with him coming in and interrupting me if he does get to the floor to do that. Mr…

the Care Planning Act is not going to try to fix all the challenges of advanced illness care but has targeted an effort.

Mr. President, I was unavoidably detained during rollcall vote No. 160 on the motion to invoke cloture on Leahy amendment No. 1183. Had I been present I would have voted nay. ____________________

So the standard is, the person making the determination or the review is not necessarily a medical professional, but they are somebody who is using medically professional information, is that correct?

How arbitrary is the determination of which cases you review and which ones you do not?

There is a fine line between recovering payments that are clearly improper and questioning a judgment call made by a professional at a moment in time.

I have been in Congress for 15 years. I have been in the Senate for 9 years.

I remain committed, along with Patty Murray, my former chairman, now Bob Casey, our chairman of the subcommittee, to see to it that that happens.

I want to repeat my thanks to Chairman Murray of the subcommittee, to Chairman Harkin of the full committee, and to Ranking Member Alexander for their commitment to reauthorize, in a bipartisan fashion, the Workforce Investment Act.

I am glad to see the encouraging signs from Chairman Harkin and Ranking Member Alexander, recently, of their commitment to bring a WIA bill to the floor in a bipartisan effort, and try and get it done this year.

It appears to me that changes are desperately needed to be made to the current law.

It was a great comment because having been a chamber president of a Chamber in a large metropolitan statistical area, they all compete with each other.

Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 275, noes 139, answered ``present'' 1, not voting 19, as…

I agree with that, and I thank the gentleman from Indiana. I appreciate his work on this. It's now my pleasure to introduce someone who not only has come to Congress fired up about the issues that are going on, but has become my cochair on…

I appreciate the gentlewoman from Missouri. She's right. That's the anger we feel and we hear from our constituents when they just don't understand what's going on here, and we need to continue that. I appreciate those words. It's now my…

I appreciate the gentleman from Kentucky. He brings a good point. I think it would behoove all of us--we hear often on this floor we need to talk about jobs, we need to talk about job creation; and what we're finding right here is the very…

Well, I appreciate it. It's always easy to follow in the footsteps of those who fought the fight before us, and I appreciate what you've done and what others have done. We're going to continue that fight, because this matters to Americans…

It is that. I appreciate the gentleman for being here tonight. I think this is something that we all see. In fact, in the 2011 speech, President Barack Obama stated that ``rules have gotten out of balance,'' and the result is ``a chilling…