Bill Cassidy

The budgets will be tight. Would something which would otherwise be recommended to be considered a national park not be recommended because of the overall budget process?

Here you have a herd of bison trampling the current environment. They have become an invasive, damaging species.

We look at the decision on appropriate levels of funding for the National Park Service. That's Congress' decision.

I am all for expanding our Park Service, but we have to live within our means, as Senator King pointed out.

It is time to hear from our witness.

A U.S. Senator from the State of Louisiana

The only way we maintain a State role is if we mandate a State role.

States cutting aid is the principal reason tuition has increased.

The more we offer, the more the States received.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 11:57 p.m., adjourned until Thursday, May 21, 2015, at 9 a.m.

Early on means either in the first year, in which case perhaps the child is not well-prepared in basic math.

This legislation would create 230,000 working class jobs for Americans who currently are underemployed or unemployed, $70 billion in new revenue, $10 billion or so for the Land and Water Conservation Fund while providing access to…

This bill provides new access to frontier acreage in the Gulf of Mexico within areas 50 miles from the Florida coastline by redefining the Eastern Gulf moratoria in 2017.

It seems like the only business model that is going to actually work in a rural setting is volume, because you don't have the critical mass of capitated patients.

We cannot make wise decisions regarding public policy unless you have those numbers, because ultimately they have to make money.

I find that commonly.

Clearly, electronic medical records are critical to precision medicine, both the research thereof and the implementation.

If there is a culture which is not sharing data, that somehow we isolate the reasons for that culture and begin to change it.

I would love to have some daggone deadlines where we are going to have interoperability.

There was a gross deficiency.

I have become kind of like--people channel their physician-type concerns to me.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 6:07 p.m., adjourned until Monday, May 4, 2015, at 3 p.m…

Senators should expect a vote in relation to the veto message to accompany S.J. Res. 8 at 5:30 p.m. on Monday. ____________________

My fear is that the Administration is so committed to climate science and their understanding of it that they are going to make assumptions which are quite variable.

I learned that jails and prisons are the number one setting to treat mental illness.