Thank you. I enjoyed each of your testimonies. Thank you. Ms. Lauper, I applaud you.

To establish that your home is your primary residence--I gather the default is that it is not your primary residence.

I'm from Louisiana, so obviously I guess we're a little interested in flood insurance.

I think Don Young had some hearings on this a few years ago.

There is an immediate need.

3 percent is pretty big in terms of absolute numbers.

I wish to commend my fellow freshman, Senator Perdue, for a great maiden speech. I like particularly his emphasis upon growing our gross domestic product, growing our economy, and making it stronger. It echoes what Senator Enzi just said…

the Affordable Care Act is unaffordable for the taxpayer, if from year to year we have had a 40 percent jump in per person Medicaid costs.

And I am paying $500 more a month for insurance, and I don't need what I'm getting with a $6,000 deductible.

Just for truth in advertising, that is because States didn't do the Medicaid expansion.

I rise in favor of the Cassidy-Peters amendment. I am a physician who has been working in a public hospital for 30 years. I am aware the following is true: 90 percent of victims in a recent survey saw a nurse or doctor or other health care…

We can debate that, because, again, as we talked about, CBO reduced their baseline of those insured.

the middle class is getting hosed by premiums, which have increased dramatically, and we are just going to leave the middle class behind when it comes to affordable health insurance.

If there is any way to expand coverage, and I am going over, and I thank you for your indulgence.

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The senior Senator from Louisiana. ____________________

Thank you, Madam President. I yield the floor. I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. The bill clerk proceeded to call the roll.

5 years ago today, 11 Americans were lost when the Deepwater Horizon exploded off the gulf coast. I would like to name them. This is hard. These were the people we grew up with. I apologize for being emotional, but these are our neighbors…

There is no way for the VA doc to access that Choice account for pharmaceuticals.

The pharmaceutical portion of the patient's care is also under the Choice Act, it is not just the doctor's visit, the surgery, whatever, it is also the pharmaceuticals?

So it strikes me if it is 80 percent of those with learning disabilities, 20 percent of the general population, why in the heck don't you have a special program for dyslexia?

If there is no evidence for long-term benefit, then clearly this is not an answer even though it is being used for 370,000 people.

The House and the Senate have been interested in consolidating duplicative programs.

How successful have you been in broadening access to pain clinic doctors among all your different facilities?

There is no evidence that for non-cancer pain longer than 90 days, that risk appears to outweigh benefit.

speaking first to amendment No. 341, a principal challenge in our society today is how do we create better jobs with better benefits for working families. There are some industries that clearly have done that. Those include the energy…