A commitment to consider creating a category of over the counter hearing aids that could deliver new, innovative, and lower cost products to millions of customers.

If the mental health and substance abuse disorder protections of the ACA are cut out, the estimate is that there would be $5 billion in resources taken out of this area.

Older patients are frequently prescribed painkillers for chronic pain, or after surgery or other procedures.

I appreciate your point on this because it seems to me that for our security, for Europe's security, and because we are a decent and compassionate people, that we need to help Europe manage the huge flow of refugees.

Let us be clear, if the Republican bill to gut American healthcare becomes law, all the miracle cures and speedy FDA approvals in the world will not matter to the tens of millions of Americans who will not be able to afford them when they…

Let us be honest. We have to say there is no way that a hiring freeze is going to help the FDA do its job.

I certainly hope that we are not going to blow up our User Fee negotiations and risk an FDA shutdown because the President does not think that the Government needs the Food and Drug Administration.

But right now, there are millions of Americans whose lives could be made so much better if they had access to low-cost hearing aids.

As I read this, I think this is just a fancy way of saying that Congress should cut the guaranteed funding going to the FDA.

If Republicans want to gut our healthcare system, they should have the decency to talk openly about it, not jam through a bill that will devastate the entire country's healthcare system with zero debate.

The Affordable Care Act made it possible for many families that are struggling with substance abuse to get access to the care that they need.

the last thing we should be doing is continuing to push for illegal Muslim bans that betray our values and our Constitution and do nothing to keep us safe.

Russia will undoubtedly continue to use cyber tools to try to interfere with and destabilize our NATO allies.

But the health care is foundational.

And the idea is to do this hopefully at a time when they can keep children both at home and in school and try to work through these problems.

Earlier this month, Senator Grassley and I wrote an op ed in the 'Journal of the American Medical Association' about this problem.

According to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, an estimated 2,000 people in our state died for opiate overdoses just last year.

If we are ever going to deter that behavior, then we need to strengthen the Alliance's capabilities and make clear what our response will be both within the NATO alliance and make that clear to the Russians.

Last week, I was at the Manet Community Health Center in Quincy, Massachusetts, and the week before that, I was at Lynn Community Health in Lynn, Massachusetts, and talking to physicians and first responders and patients and local…

Let us not mince words.

I recently sent a letter with Senator Patty Murray expressing my concern over the impact of a series of actions taken by President Trump on the Nation's preparedness for a pandemic flu outbreak.

last week Republicans in the House released a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act and cut Medicaid to the bone. On Tuesday, the Congressional Budget Office--those are the independent budget experts who analyze policies under…

I am concerned that if we believe that the lesson out of the Iraq war is that technology and new technology will not be important in future combat.

In recent years, senior Army officers have cautioned against the myth that advanced technology will win wars.

We really have not been able to change that at the level of the infantry soldier.