Bill Nelson

One in four users of the bank payday loan known as a deposit advance, one in four, 25 percent is a Social Security recipient.

What the Bureau found is precisely what Senator Nelson and Senator Collins were describing

We have an important subject to discuss today, payday loans and other short-term lending products and how they impact seniors.

We work together, and that is the way it ought to be.

We have not and that is a very important call to action for all of us who are involved.

Thank you, Senator Nelson and Senator Collins, for having this hearing.

I think it is worth noting that only 29 percent report having a living will that states what their wishes are in end-of-life care.

We have tried to get CMS to put the advance care planning as a part of an annual consultation and CMS removed it.

Good afternoon. We have established a new kind of procedure here.

You are a very valuable member of this committee and you bring a great perspective as a former Attorney General.

I thank the Senator, the esteemed chairman of the Judiciary Committee. It is common sense. I appreciate him underscoring that. I hope our brethren and sistren on the other side who are questioning whether they are going to allow my and…

Would the Senator yield. The Senator--the esteemed chairman whose leadership has brought us to this point, that we are on the brink of passing a major immigration reform bill--the Senator heard my comments earlier. Does it not make common…

I was so relieved that the Senator was listening to me and willing to help.

It should not take a call to a Congressional office to get your money back.

There is a live petition for rulemaking, filed by Media Access Project, filed a year ago, asking the Commission to examine the Commission's authority under the Communications Act, to require more disclosure in political advertising.

But what is happening is consolidation of the hospitals--exactly the opposite.

It is not infrequently that I get the panicked call to one of our Florida offices from a senior citizen with, for example, what happened last week, a bill from the hospital of $40,000.

I do not know how we would do that if, in a given urban market, the hospitals are owning most of the practices.

Well, that is the theory of the ACOs.

I am concerned, as we implement the Affordable Care Act, and we are seeing, at least in Florida, hospitals buying up doctors' practices and other health care provider practices.

I would just conclude by saying that I not only speak of this for my State of Florida, of which citrus is one of its primary industries and now the product of which is a staple on every American breakfast table, but I speak also of our…

I thank Senator Stabenow for her commitment to helping fund a cure for citrus greening, and it is just that; it is an emergency situation. Because of the devastating nature of this citrus greening disease, the citrus research trust fund…

Do you have any recommendation of how this ought to be exposed, other than these attempts by local TV stations and the newspapers to bring this out?

The owners of these hotels or the managers of the hotels would obviously know that this illicit activity is going on, very possibly with children?

In your experience in Connecticut, are you seeing improvement in the reporting of these cases so that it will build the case all the more that this is happening right under our noses?