Nancy Kassebaum: “The bill has been modified to ensure that this waiver will be in effect for the length of the community health center…”

I would also note that S. 1044 continues an authority in current law that permits the Secretary to designate a population as "medically underserved" if the chief executive officer of a State and local officials recommend that designation…

These words are meant to broadly preclude the use of any of the categories insurance companies have historically used to deny people coverage based on health status and related factors-- that reasonably could lead a health plan to believe…

regarding the Dorgan amendment, I would just say that I think we are better off the way things are than to try to develop a rigidity that I think would occur in the amendment offered by the Senator from North Dakota. It requires a…

I believe most Americans realize that is so. Federal dollars in education are less than 10 percent of the education dollars spent in this country. Local and State governments spend, I think, about $508 billion in education. I happen to…