Health data ultimately belongs to the patient, not to EHR vendors, and an EHR vendor should not be permitted to 'hoard' patient data in order to gain a business advantage.

Well, our power grid has been reliable for so long that, for the most part, no one even thinks about it.

Basically, it's a way to tie a patient to a system, to say the system is not going to share data anywhere else.

In 2015, when cell phones can text pictures instantly around the globe, it just doesn't make sense that potentially lifesaving health information can't be transferred across the street.

It seems past time to eliminate the perverse incentives and administrative barriers and just get this done.

The grid is aging. Much of the technology was developed by Thomas Edison and much of the structure was built shortly after World War II.

I support the effort of the Labor Department to try to get a fiduciary standard for broker-dealers, and I hope it comes through.

The only way we fix that is if we change the rule and say that all of the investment advisors have to put the clients' best interest first.

I am going to press forward with this bipartisan proposal again in this Congress because far too often the critical details of these settlements are hidden from the public.

The standard prescription is that Americans should put more money aside. This recommendation glosses over a critical driver of unpreparedness. Wall Street is bleeding savers dry.

Last Congress former Senator Tom Coburn and I introduced a bill called the Truth in Settlements Act which would require the Government to take these settlements with big corporations and make them public, and this bill was blocked from…

Our bill would have required Federal agencies to disclose some basic information about the settlement and post a copy of the agreement online, but because we haven't passed the Truth in Settlements Act yet the public can't even see a copy…