If you can have somebody taken care of in their home instead of having to go into a nursing home, it's cheaper, the quality of life is better, everybody's happier. It's a win-win-win.

So what should we at the federal level do, in your judgment, in order to see that the ombudsmen can do their jobs more effectively so that these horror stories that we've heard about won't happen, and so that the vast majority of ALFs that…

So the laws weren't being enforced.

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

We work with the states.

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

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.

what is so revealing in the Miami Herald article is example after example of egregious conduct on the part of the facilities, and some of them didn't even get a slap on the wrist.

Mr. President, 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…

So that is a false argument, that it is going to cause any improvement on voter fraud. There is hardly any voter fraud. That is one thing the new election law does. What is another thing? It makes it harder if a person moves their…

Mr. President, 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…