Frankly, docs perceive the prior auth is used merely as an obstacle by which they will not prescribe a certain therapy even if it is indicated.

It does not seem inherent that it is going to be the Federal government because, as Dr. Book convincingly tells me, the overhead associated with Medicare is actually more costly than private plans.

I am very interested in trade-based money laundering and the way by which transnational criminal organizations or terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah move dollars outside of the U.S. to wherever they wish to take them.

Thank you for your consideration.

John has been nominated by the President to serve as the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development at the Department of Commerce.

What do we do about a state like Tennessee, a state like Iowa or Louisiana where we have maybe one or two or there is no insurers competing in the individual market, the Obamacare exchanges.

I think we need more experimentation, more tests of different models.

I think we, on this Committee, would be interested in helping out on issues such as surprise medical bills.

It is frightening to people and could potentially keep people out of emergency rooms when they need them.

The HELP Committee will meet again Wednesday, July 25 for an executive session.

What can we do to aid that?

my motion to instruct conferees to the minibus appropriations bill, H.R. 5895, is a simple 6-month extension of the National Flood Insurance Program, currently set to expire July 31, 2018--in about 2 weeks. The same timeline in this motion…

if you are going to shut down a coal plant which is providing baseload to substitute in a renewable and on that particular day the sun and the wind decide to take a break, as Mr. Murchie would suggest, do you have in your algorithm, we…

I have a motion to instruct conferees at the desk, and I ask for its immediate consideration. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the motion. The bill clerk read as follows: The Senator from Louisiana [Mr. Cassidy] moves that the…

very briefly, this is a 6-month reauthorization of current law, which will allow continued work for a longer term reauthorization. It protects American families and the U.S. taxpayers from the consequences of a lapsed program during peak…

American families expect more.

A 2017 Pew poll shows overwhelming majorities of Americans support paid sick leave and paid maternity leave.

Common sense tells us that it's important for parents to spend time with their newborn.

Thank you for the opportunity to submit this statement for the record on the July 11, 2018 Senate Committee on Finance Subcommittee on Social Security, Pensions, and Family Policy hearing.

It is long overdue that Congress not just have a conversation on these matters but get serious about a path forward.

So if you will, the Federal program would supplant that which business is already doing, which would increase the cost to the Federal taxpayer?

I am very concerned about our ability to pay our current obligations and wonder again if we just are not supplanting with Federal tax dollars for some folks--not for all, because some do not have the benefit.

I am very sympathetic to what these small business owners said, which is, I have a small business, and I have thin margins, and I have three employees.

I hope you will continue to fight for what is truly best for our families, by supporting and co-sponsoring the FAMILY Act (S. 337).

I think my final assessment is that it is those lower-income people who do not have the benefit now, that we have limited capacity to raise payroll taxes if we are to make current obligations.