Clearly, we should have a bipartisan interest in having outcomes data that shows who is doing a good job and who is not.

If you do not measure it, it does not improve.

Sheldon Whitehouse and I in the 21st Century Cures Bill put forward something for Health IT.

the last 8 years were really hard for a lot of families. They have seen their wages stagnate and their benefits not go up. Indeed, what they have been paying for health insurance and flood insurance and many other things has risen even…

I wish to add my words to those that have been said. Let me begin by saying that the achievement of this tax proposal is not about anyone in this Chamber; it is about the working families who for the last 8 years have not done so well…

Block granting Medicaid is not part of this. It can be a disinformation campaign put out there to obscure the truth.

Frankly, it's Medicare fraud, I think.

We have to have fair treatment of the population as well.

There is a clear law written by Congress.

I could not be more grateful for Customs and Border Protection in catching--in the Ressam case at Port Angeles.

It seems as if CBP or the agencies, or the Department is making a decision as to whether or not to enforce laws that Congress has passed.

this is not about the budget, but it is about something that all of us can, unfortunately, understand the importance of. On Sunday, October 1, U.S. naval aviation instructor, LT Patrick L. Ruth, and student naval aviator, LTJG Wallace…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Honoring Our Armed Forces Lieutenant Patrick L. Ruth

If I may say, though, just to counter that a little bit, there's been more of an emphasis on raising prices on established drugs than on new innovative drugs.

The Medicaid Best Price Law and elements of the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute may inhibit the formation of value-based agreements.

Actually, for non-expansion states, there would be billions more.

But as I gather, and Senator Hassan from New Hampshire as Governor instituted this, but as far as I know, it is the only state that has done so.

Now granted, we need teachers, and we need this, we need that but nonetheless, it does seem program failure.

If 20 percent of the population is dyslexic, it is program failure for 20 percent.

If we embrace the SAVE program in the VA and work to do it, we will save a lot of lives.

Is there a difference in suicide rates associated with different facilities?

Now, your State, I think has a higher rate of poverty than New Jersey.

I suspect that that would vary from facility to facility as well.

But, VA represents the hope.

Interestingly enough, the one demographic that really jumped out was white males between 30 and 60.