The 5,000 cases, how old are those?

Reform of the criminal justice system in Mexico is of paramount importance.

Moving forward, as we think about what to do, helping them with these long-term institution-building, creating a justice system that can punish the guilty and free the innocent...

We should be clear. The Mexican people and the Mexican nation are strong.

Do you think with this new--I guess they put a deadline in of 2016 to achieve a lot of these reforms. Are they going to make it?

I do think the North America Development Bank can play a role in this, in helping build the infrastructure on both sides of the border and speed this.

Mr. President, I would like to announce that the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship will meet on June 17, 2013, at 5:30 p.m. in the Mansfield Room of the Capitol (S-207) to hold a markup on Committee legislation. Committee on…

Madam President, I am proud to stand here today as a resident of Georgia and its capital city Atlanta, which is the home of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in America, a great institution with which Senator Brown and I are…

I appreciate the focus on that. My friend from Ohio is exactly correct. Antimicrobial resistance is a serious threat to our Nation's health. Many bacteria become resistant to multiple classes of antibiotics. I might add a personal note at…

I ran a company for 20 years, and a healthy workforce that was ready, willing, and able to go to work every single day made a big difference. A lot of times when we think of CDC, we think of outbreaks in Africa, we think of ebola, and we…

I appreciate very much the Senator's focus on CDC. I think it is ironic that we close talking about Franklin Delano Roosevelt because in the 1940s, as our President, he suffered from polio. He would take the train to Georgia to go down to…

I think Medicare is the 800-pound gorilla in the room.

I am shocked at what Senator Nelson has uncovered, that providers would do exactly what we designed and take advantage of it.

I think what I have heard from all of you is that our health care system needs to be redesigned.

Well, the Senator makes a great point because CDC is kind of the crucible where all the partners in health care in the country come together. You might remember when we were here on 9/11/01, shortly after the attack on the Trade Center in…

When I grew up in the fifties, I remember taking the sugar cube, the anti-polio vaccine, the Jonas Salk vaccine, for the first time ever. Polio has been a dread disease that has affected the American people and people around the world for…

Mr. President, I would like to announce that the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship will meet on Thursday, June 20, 2013, at 10 a.m. in room 428A Russell Senate Office building to hold a roundtable entitled ``Sequestration…

I think it is a cheap shot to come in here and say that has contributed to the health care model that we have today.