That's exactly the message that I've gotten here. I mean, I can't say it any better than you just said it.

A bully pulpit that was filled by the Miami Herald, I might say.

So the laws weren't being enforced.

But we can't afford to have the whole thing undermined by 5 or 10 percent of the providers who are not performing and are not being regulated effectively.

It's a state responsibility.

no State should have the right to make a law if it abridges people's basic rights. I have requested the Department of Justice to look into that. I requested this several months ago. At this moment, I cannot tell you to what degree the…

Well, on the basis of what we've seen in this newspaper report, the regulatory agency in this case--AHCA in the state of Florida, the Agency for Health Care Administration--wasn't doing its job.

I wish to inform the Senate of something that has just happened to a civics teacher in my State of Florida who tried to help her students register to vote. It was nothing new for this teacher, Jill Cicciarelli, to be prepping 17-year-old…

the development of a federal framework to help standardize the requirements for the Resident's Bill of Rights and a Disclosure Statement.

In any of your experiences, have you ever seen this taken to a prosecution?

Thank you for giving me the privilege of chairing this hearing today on an extremely timely topic, Ensuring Quality and Oversight in Assisted Living.

Well, you do have the bully pulpit.