Patients need to be treated like whole people, people with loved ones and families, people with dignity and values.

I just want to take this chance to say publicly, yes, I have had the conversation. I had it twice.

I encourage everyone to have the conversation.

I want to thank Ranking Member Collins for scheduling this hearing and for reopening the conversation about advanced planning for medical treatment.

We are slowly gaining evidence that coordination among doctors giving specialized care can improve a patient's quality of life.

Patients should have the right to make their own healthcare decisions.

I had the confidence that I was doing what Aunt Bea wanted, what my Daddy wanted. It was their final gift to me.

I've said many times that in a nation as rich as ours, no one who works for a living and puts in a full day's work should have to live in poverty, be unable to put food on the table, pay their bills, keep up with the rent.

I think we have heard from our witnesses today that homeownership may be undermined, that there is data suggesting that homeownership is undermined by the growing amount of student loan debt.

You've made something a national issue again that needs to be a national issue.

If we raise the minimum wage to $10.10, then we would generate about 140,000 new jobs.

So we call these 'subsidized' loans even though today the program has been completely changed and, in fact, is making a profit for the U.S. Government.