If we're going to fix the accreditation process, then Corinthian should be a bright blinking light as to an example of how this went badly wrong.

The fee for service system is baked into the DNA of our healthcare system, and so--reorienting practice so that we're chasing outcomes and quality rather than volume.

I am coming to the floor to speak on behalf of an amendment I am offering, along with Senators Schatz, Udall, Blumenthal, Heinrich, Tester, Merkley, and Baldwin. Today, it was announced that President Obama is going to be sending another…

It is my hope that with your help the amazing, community-driven work that has been done can be finally endorsed this year through a Federal designation for the Lower Farmington River and the Salmon Brook.

we are hopefully going to be able to vote very shortly on an amendment to the NDAA that I have submitted, No. 1901, which speaks to a pretty simple concept that when we spend taxpayer money and 70 percent of the goods that we purchase with…

I think that having the card and having a mechanism by which the individual patient has access to their data is one of the important goals that we need to achieve.

My particular concern comes from my Rhode Island experience.

One is the ownership and command of information by the patient themselves, and the other is a system whose information support will take care of that patient even when they are alone and incapable.

We've spent an enormous amount of money on Meaningful Use.

I think we also need to achieve the goal for the patient who is unconscious, who is very elderly and perhaps at the end of their life, who is perhaps not at their full mental capacity, to have the data system work, even when the patient is…

I will just note that in college I wrote a 20-page research paper on why James K. Polk was the most underrated President.

This is such an important issue, and Chairman Alexander and Ranking Member Murray have embarked on a committee-wide process to take a look at health information technology and information exchange.

It strikes me that as part of this conversation--and I'd love to get the range of thoughts from the table--that we should be talking about a couple of additional things.

I'm totally on board, Dr. Alexander, with the idea that we should look at higher education funding in somewhat the same way we look at transportation funding.

I'm a little over my time, but I'd like to hear your----

It's time to modernize Lifeline so more American families can benefit from the democracy and opportunity engine of the 21st century.

The Broadband Adoption Act of 2015 addresses a critical need in our nation--closing the digital divide by bringing affordable broadband within the reach of struggling households.

Verizon supports efforts to reform, modernize and add accountability to the Lifeline program, and the bill introduced by Representative Matsui and Senators Murphy and Booker is an important contribution to those efforts.

We welcome the reintroduction of the Broadband Adoption Act by Rep. Doris Matsui and Senators Chris Murphy and Cory Booker, and the renewed focus it shines on the important issue of broadband adoption.

Broadband access has become a fundamental requirement of social and economic inclusion and ensures that every segment of our population can fully participate in the information age.

For Americans trying to move out of poverty and succeed in our modern economy, broadband access is absolutely crucial.

I ask unanimous consent that Amanda Clinton, a fellow in my office, be granted floor privileges for the remainder of the calendar year. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

shown in this picture I have in the Chamber is Christina from Stratford, CT. She is a small business owner, and she has a story that is becoming pretty familiar all across the country. She left a job a couple of years ago that provided for…

I take the caution of adverse consequences seriously, but we always have to consider the adverse consequences of doing nothing.

Doing nothing just isn't an option.