Michael Bennet

I think that would be useful to the committee. I certainly would like to have that.

Mr. Chairman, I can't thank you enough for including us.

What this really is going to come down to is the quality of the implementation.

Throughout the healthcare debate we were very focused on the community-based care transitions program that is included in the Partnership for Patients.

I did want to come by and recognize Katie for coming here and testifying, not just the inconvenience, but the courage to come and testify on behalf of so many people across the State and across the country that have suffered through some…

I support Judge Jackson's nomination and the work of our confirmation and urge confirmation of this impressively experienced candidate to the Federal bench.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it recess under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 7:35 p.m., recessed until Wednesday, April 6, 2011, at 9:30 a.m…

Senators should expect a series of up to seven rollcall votes to begin at approximately 4 p.m. in relation to amendments to the small business jobs bill. ____________________

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Franken). Is there a sufficient second? There is a sufficient second. The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the nomination of Jimmie V. Reyna, of Maryland, to be…

The one thing that people could rally behind no matter what town hall meeting they were in was the idea that we ought to break our addiction to foreign oil, especially oil that we imported from the Persian Gulf.

As the States begin to set up functioning exchanges, if more than one State wanted to get together and provide that exchange together, would they be able to do that?

I continue to hear from the small businesses in my State that they are just being crushed by rising health care costs.

I'm proud that in Colorado we've already had 11 hearings in our State to talk about how to set up the exchanges.

The States themselves would decide, not the Federal Government, but the States would decide to come together, in those instances, you could have a marketplace that extended across State lines for insurance.

This part of the puzzle is getting a lot of high praise in our State.

There is a nagging concern that they will always believe that we will be because of the sheer scale of housing, the importance of it to our economy.

With this hearing, we start the difficult process of reforming our housing finance system and reducing the Government's role in the secondary mortgage market.

I actually want to go all the way back to the very beginning and the Ranking Member's conversation with you, Secretary Geithner, about taking the politics out of this, which I am all for.

I think we are just subjecting our economy to enormous risk here by overregulation.

I do think we are forcing it out of the United States to areas where it will be in the shadows and it will be less regulated.

I think that is well put, and Senator Roberts said at the beginning that he hopes this is the first of several, and I agree with that.

I thank Chairman Leahy, Senator Grassley, Senator Hatch, and all of the members of the Judiciary Committee for their hard work on patent reform. Moving this bill forward has been a difficult task. I look forward to supporting the bill as…

I would encourage it, just because I think our financial stability is so closely linked to our fiscal stability.

This practice known as transitional care, has shown a reduction of up to 50 percent in places with high re-admission rates; and I'm very proud that this was homegrown in the State of Colorado based on work in Mesa County and Denver.

One of the things that I talked about was that, when people said, 'We don't believe government can do a good job here; look at what government has done before,' I said, 'You have a point.'