I have just introduced legislation, with support from a number of my colleagues, to expand that program

That is exactly the kind of, in my view, wrongdoing that the VA was committing in facilities around the country that we sought to correct.

I do respect the expertise and experience and dedication of my colleague and friend from Tennessee. I especially understand and am grateful for his leadership as the chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, which…

Thank you all, and I join your thanks to Senator Collins for having this hearing.

I was alarmed to learn that some companies are, in fact, profiting from scam artists purchasing fraudulent ads.

one last word. I want to simply concur in the very powerful and eloquent statements made by my colleague from Florida. I think we all share those sentiments in this body that--and I am quoting now from legislation: Any employee who engages…

It really is important to know, because if you are going to target solutions, if you are going to try to deal with human nature, perhaps the tools that the bad guys use ought to be used more artfully or ingeniously by the good guys to try…

I would be more than willing--indeed, happy--to work with my colleague from Florida on specific language that improves the whistleblower protection language. I think his bill takes a step in the right direction by providing that the Office…

reserving the right to object, I respect deeply and in fact support the arguments made by my colleague from Florida. There are goals here to be served, and I strongly support them as well. Accountability has been lacking for too long in…

I do not know how many times I have said, hang up, or if it looks too good to be true, it probably is.

we are saying today not only enough is enough but also: Rise up, America, and demand action from this Congress, which for too long has been complicit--in fact, an aider and abettor in the mass killings that have taken place at Virginia…

I would like to see numbers.

the latest instance with GM, where 120-plus people were killed by a defective ignition switch, known to the company for years before it was disclosed.

I have been fighting on the issue of automobiles for better disclosure.

Thank you, Senator Moran. Mr. Chairman, thank you for having this hearing, which is enormously important to consumer protection.

I think a more relevant and certainly more important one is that post-recall-notice injury and death rate.

the number that I have given you, 10 percent, pertains to products whether they are fixed or destroyed.

promises should be kept, as a matter of morality

what we saw in Roseburg last week was a repeat of the evil we have seen in countless places across the country, causing tens of thousands of deaths in towns and cities and suburbs and rural areas across this country. Evil visited Roseburg…

State franchising doesn't provide for the continuation of institutional networks.

There really is a common goal here.

And the telecommunications companies often blame the terrain or woods.

This area has about 22 towns and 200,000 residents, including Meryl Streep and Henry Kissinger and a number of other boldfaced names that would be well known to you, but it is covered in a way that local officials and residents say is…

Thanks, Mr. Chairman. And thank you for having this hearing on a really important topic that has national implications, I think in every state in the country.

I think that there is a need for more outreach to the homeless, from what I have seen at least in Connecticut.