Donald Trump is trying to bring chaos to the consumer agency.

I thank the Senator from Ohio for his leadership in impressing on the American people to take a look at Mr. Otting, who has been named to be the head of the OCC. I rise and join my voice with his in saying that this is a bad nomination for…

But we need to underline that a person's chances of growing up healthy or staying healthy or getting help when they need it should not depend on their zip code, and help should not be reserved for the wealthy few and the well connected.

That is deeply shocking in America.

I echo my colleague's concerns about yesterday's decision by the Senate Republicans to use their tax bill to rip healthcare coverage away from 13 million Americans.

Republicans have apparently decided that it is not enough for their tax bill to raise taxes on millions of middle class families.

Republicans should not use their tax bill as a way to take away people's health insurance.

This will destabilize the insurance market, and it will hurt people, plain and simple.

I see this as health and economic security go hand in hand.

Do you agree that improving health outcomes in this country and addressing these disturbing trends that we're talking about is going to take economic policies as well as public health policies?

Our bill requires the NIH to issue certificates of confidentiality to all federally funded researchers.

I strongly support the data sharing requirements for federally funded research.

I rise today to oppose the nomination of William Wehrum to be the next Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation at the Environmental Protection Agency. This job is really pretty straightforward. The person in this job must fight for…

last year, powerful corporate interest groups actually stole a Supreme Court seat and handed it over to their handpicked choice, Neil Gorsuch. Now those powerful corporate groups are about to use that seat to deal a devastating blow to…

You said that the Bank 'embodies the corruption of the free enterprise system.' Those were your words.

You have not given us a single principled reason for this change.

just last week, the Republican-controlled Congress rammed through a budget with the sole purpose of allowing Republicans to enact a tax plan that would take money from working Americans and put it into the pockets of giant corporations and…

I think it looks like you have done what is politically convenient.

Does the HHS Inspector General support adding such a line to the claim form?

The device identifiers on the claim form would reduce Medicare costs by identifying poorly performing devices more quickly and protect beneficiaries from unnecessary cost.

Last year, CMS also supported adding the device information to claims.

It seems that figuring out how to use safer devices and sorting out the safer devices from the less safe devices could save Medicare a lot of money and save consumers a lot of money and a lot of pain.

Adding device identifiers to claim forms has bipartisan support in Congress. Senator Grassley and I have been pushing this now for years, and I'll be blunt, we're going to keep pushing on this.

Then a recent report showed that medical error, including patient misidentification, was the third leading cause of death in the United States.

I'm very glad to hear this, that we're working on ways to address the shortcomings in the current system.