Bill Cassidy

Students are being burdened with debt for decades, and oftentimes have no information about their likelihood of paying off that debt.

College tuition is going up, programs are going up, and programs which are not sustainable.

There is going to be people who fall through the net no matter what, and we need to make sure they are protected.

If all colleges did this great job, would we have this panel today?

Colleges could be helping out and that colleges have done a great job.

I think it makes the case for targeting these programs to the greatest extent possible.

We have a bill that would increase transparency; that would ask that a student who is enrolling in a university would have a sense of how much she or he is going to earn if they complete.

Is the VA using medication assisted treatment for addiction.

Can you perhaps submit, for the record, the percent of patients whom you think have opioid addictions?

Correct. A rise could be from a very small baseline.

Finally, is the VA using medication-assisted therapy for those who are addicted?

We need to know whether it is more apparent than real.

The pharmacist said that it, VistA, does not flag it.

Is VistA capable of flagging this? Are the pharmacy programs incapable of seeing these drug interactions and flagging them?

I have been interested in this data, in terms of applying to the VA, and knowing facility specificity.

The article is about how the VA fueled the national opioid crisis and is killing thousands of veterans.

We have a coastal crisis.

I look forward to working with this Committee to restore the Mississippi River Delta Coalition.

This timeframe is unacceptable given the magnitude of the threat to Louisiana's coastline.

It has required our State to develop, in a bipartisan fashion, a comprehensive plan referred to as the Louisiana Comprehensive Master Plan for Sustainable Coasts.

It poses a serious threat to our State, to our communities, and upon our State's and nation's economy.

Louisiana is losing land as we speak.

I believe the Corps and the Bureau of Reclamation need to work together to address this challenge.

So I urge my colleagues to work with me in a bipartisan way to find these solutions to the enactment of the WRDA bill in 2018.

A targeted legislative solution is required, which if done carefully and without damage to the underlying statute, we support