Johnny Isakson

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.

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.

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

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.

I want to repeat my thanks to Chairman Murray of the subcommittee, to Chairman Harkin of the full committee, and to Ranking Member Alexander for their commitment to reauthorize, in a bipartisan fashion, the Workforce Investment Act.

I am glad to see the encouraging signs from Chairman Harkin and Ranking Member Alexander, recently, of their commitment to bring a WIA bill to the floor in a bipartisan effort, and try and get it done this year.

I remain committed, along with Patty Murray, my former chairman, now Bob Casey, our chairman of the subcommittee, to see to it that that happens.

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

I ran a company for 20 years, and a healthy workforce that was ready, willing, and able to go to work every single day made a big difference. A lot of times when we think of CDC, we think of outbreaks in Africa, we think of ebola, and we…

I continue to have concerns regarding the VA disability claims backlog, and I think the current situation is inexcusable.

I remain committed to ensuring that the United States lives up to the promises we have made to our Nation's service men and women.

Will you engage on this issue in the TPP negotiations? Because you said your number-two priority was to level the playing field.

When you start negotiating with people, you have the opportunity to correct some things that have been bad in terms of past practices.

Only when those answers to those questions take place, can you begin the process of restoring the confidence of the American people in the Internal Revenue Service.

It seems to me, taking the Specialty Healthcare decision, if appropriate, and applying it to a retail establishment with a plethora of different departments within it, and saying each one of them can organize and bargain as a unit, is…

Thank you for your answer.

I have been a big advocate of raising the visibility of durable power of attorneys, living wills, end-of-life directives.

I think that makes an awful lot of difference in the politics.

Carrie has seen to it that that has taken place and has implemented the policies of the Kate Puzey Peace Corps Protection Act.

It was a privilege to serve with you in the Congress.

After that passage of that act, we learned of a number of other sexual violence cases and violence cases against Peace Corps Volunteers.