This letter demonstrates that Mr. Perez, as of that day, had still failed to comply completely with a subpoena issued on April 10, 2013, for information to be considered. I recognize that Mr. Issa is not a Member of the U.S. Senate, but he…

first, before the Senator from Tennessee leaves the floor, if he was getting ready to, I wish to commend him on his activities over the last 8 days. For the second time in a decade, we came to the brink of making a bad mistake in the…

I very much want to fix the SGR, and I think the 4- to 5-year period of time probably is a realistic evaluation time.

About 72 percent, I am told, of seniors on Medicare have two or more chronic conditions for which they are receiving services.

the Care Planning Act is not going to try to fix all the challenges of advanced illness care but has targeted an effort.

I was unavoidably detained during rollcall vote No. 160 on the motion to invoke cloture on Leahy amendment No. 1183. Had I been present I would have voted nay. ____________________

How arbitrary is the determination of which cases you review and which ones you do not?

There is a fine line between recovering payments that are clearly improper and questioning a judgment call made by a professional at a moment in time.

So the standard is, the person making the determination or the review is not necessarily a medical professional, but they are somebody who is using medically professional information, is that correct?

It was a great comment because having been a chamber president of a Chamber in a large metropolitan statistical area, they all compete with each other.

I have been in Congress for 15 years. I have been in the Senate for 9 years.

It appears to me that changes are desperately needed to be made to the current law.