Opening Statement of: Hon. Pat Roberts, a U.S. Senator from the State of Kansas.
I have the dubious privilege of being the longest serving member on the Ethics Committee in the history of the United States Senate.
Mr. Chairman, I move that we adopt the rules and resolution.
As a Marine, I take this issue personally and it helps that we have 37,000 military men and women stationed in Kansas.
There was one by John Cornyn that passed the Senate by unanimous consent, but it was somehow dropped over in the other body, in the House.
I think our service men and women certainly deserve more.
It is called money. It is called raising a family.
Science and math competency is increasingly essential to this country.
please, help us to do everything we can to get that funding up to 40 percent.
This is the biggest unfunded mandate that the U.S. Congress has foisted on the American public and the American school system ever since con...
I hope we look at it not as reimbursing based on utilization, but rather based on healthy outcomes.