Political Quotes

“I urge all of my colleagues to support this bipartisan bill that would ensure geriatric education for our current workforce while it would optimize resources to bolster academic careers in geriatrics and help to attract the best and the brightest into this field. Together, these programs would develop exactly the kind of highly qualified workforce that we need to care for Americans as our Nation grows older. I thank the Presiding Officer. ______ By Ms. COLLINS (for herself, Mr. Tester, Mrs. Capito, Mr. Jones, Mr. Boozman, Mr. Manchin, and Ms. Harris): S. 304. A bill to reauthorize section 340H of the Public Health Service Act to continue to encourage the expansion, maintenance, and the establishment of approved graduate medical residency programs at qualified teaching health centers, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Mr. President, I rise today to introduce legislation with my colleague from Montana, Senator Tester, to fund Teaching Health Centers, a time-tested model for success to train the next generation of primary care doctors in communities where they are needed the most. I am pleased that Senators Capito, Jones, Boozman, Manchin, and Harris have joined us as cosponsors. Over the next decade, the severe shortage of primary care doctors could reach crisis levels in a growing number of rural and underserved communities in Maine and across our Nation.…”