Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"The advisory committee giving patients and victims a seat at the table, giving them a voice to be heard, I think will help to increase awareness in the medical community."

"I am pleased to submit this testimony to the permanent record of the hearing of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee."

"The insurance companies, from what I've understood and heard here today, continue to be a problem, a problem in the sense that they are still resistant to providing coverage in many instances."

"I'm very hopeful that the measure that I proposed and that Senator Gillibrand has co-sponsored and others around the country--it is a bipartisan coalition."