Political Quotes

“I ask unanimous consent that the letters be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the letters were ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: Penobscot Community Health Care, August 2, 2017. Hon. Susan Collins, U.S. Senate, Washington, DC. Dear Senator Collins: On behalf of Penobscot Community Health Care's General Practice Dental Residency program, a Teaching Health Center training 3-6 residents a year (with over 28 residents trained since 2011) and serving 15,000 dental patients in Bangor, Maine, I want to express our appreciation for your relentless efforts to develop legislation to continue funding and expand the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education (THCGME) program. We know that you and your staff have worked long and hard with multiple stakeholder organizations, including the American Association of Teaching Health Centers, to create the best possible legislation that will fund adequately this vital program for at least another three years and provide for expansion to additional medically underserved areas of our country. THCs currently train more than 742 residents nationally and are providing more than a million patient visits in underserved rural and urban communities. The continuation of this program is vital in all of the communities they are located, and preserving this program is critical to the health of hundreds of thousands around the country.…”