Tom Harkin: “I thought the answer to that was, all other things being equal, yes, it makes a difference.”

Both Senator Alexander and I will have opening statements.

I will take about 3 minutes, and I would like to thank my friend from Pennsylvania for being a gentleman and letting me have a few minutes to express myself before he gives his own expression of support for this bill. First of all, I…

The bill called the Community Integration Act that I introduced earlier this year to get rid of the Medicaid institutional bias--well, it's there.

I look forward to her speedy confirmation.