Congress passed the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act in 2008.

I continue to hear his voice, and I think that his warrior fighting spirit for justice is one of the principles and the reasons that I and so many others feel so strongly about this issue.

Even with the supposed availability of the VA as a source of treatment, we had in Connecticut just within the past week a marine who came back from Afghanistan and tragically took his own life after seeking treatment for PTS.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

In mental health, uncertainty kills.

I support that design, the $443 million for the design program.

Regulatory agencies have authority to act through official rulemaking and the notice and comment process created in 1946.

I would think that this would spark a lot of interest in Washington, particularly amongst the Chamber of Commerce.

Frankly, the Health Care Affordability Act has done more to extend parity than we ever were able to do in our parity bill.

I agree with what Senator Kaine has just said the responsibility being on the part of Congress.

And the absence of these regulations has real-world consequences in imperiling lives and perhaps causing crashes and imperiling people.

Without the rules, very often the law is simply dead letter.

I would argue that there is standing under a correct and I think legal interpretation of the standing doctrines.

We will be asking you these questions again and again as you come before the Committee.

in 2005--May of that year--the Senate faced a crisis that seems very familiar and very much like the one we face today in this body. Very simply, the Senate was unable to approve judges, which threatened to incapacitate a coequal branch of…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Judicial Nominations

I wish to begin by thanking a number of my colleagues for their leadership, including Senators Merkley and Harkin and others in this body who have championed the Employment Non- Discrimination Act, known as ENDA, over many years with great…

I cannot recommend her highly enough to be Assistant Secretary for Policy and Planning at the VA.

I think that has to be a priority for you, for Mr. Gibson, for the entire VA leadership.

I am very, very confident she will serve in this position with distinction and recommend her as highly as possible to this Committee.

We need to redress that injustice and misfortune for them and for our Nation.

although basic research does not begin with a particular practical goal; when you look at the results over the years, it ends up being one of the most practical things government does.

This is going to create good-paying jobs for people living in his home State of Iowa and my home State of Illinois.

In fact, the cost of incarcerating an individual is now in excess of what it costs to send a young person to college in many universities across the country.

I want to thank Senator Grassley for his shared interest in the Thompson Federal Prison.