Allowing Medicare patients to receive hospice care and curative treatment at the same time ought to be a sensible solution.

Allowing Medicare patients to receive home health services before they are finally homebound, but when it is cheaper and better to serve them at home, ought to be another restriction we can work around.

As Senator Collins pointed out, most everybody would prefer to die at home, and yet, most die in an acute care hospital or a nursing home.

The Gosnell Memorial Hospice House provides an alternative when care in the home is no longer possible or sufficient.

I rise to speak in support of the Fiscal Year 2017 National Defense Authorization Act, a bill upon which we have fortunately invoked cloture today and which I hope will allow us to proceed to finish this vitally important legislation. I…

Unspent funds should be returned.

I think that people should be able to enroll before they provide documentation.

I really think it would actually discourage people from enrolling.

I rise today to speak in support of an amendment offered by the senior Senator from Alaska, Ms. Murkowski, to strike the changes to the basic allowance for housing, or BAH, that are proposed in section 604 of the Defense authorization…

I rise to introduce bipartisan legislation with my colleague from Maine, Senator King, to permit foreign air carriers traveling to or from Cuba to make non-traffic, transit stops in the United States. Enactment of this legislation will…

I will be very brief. Let me just reiterate what I have been saying repeatedly. What the amendment Senator Reed, Senator Cochran, and I have introduced does is make very clear that HUD is prohibited from intervening in local decisions…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Foreign Relations be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on May 19, 2016, 10 a.m., to conduct a hearing entitled ``Treaties.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on May 19, 2016, at 2:30 p.m., in room SD-366 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. The PRESIDING OFFICER…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Foreign Relations be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on May 19, 2016, 11:30 a.m. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. committee on the judiciary

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on May 19, 2016, at 10 a.m., in room SD-226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building to conduct an executive business meeting…

I ask unanimous consent that the Select Committee on Intelligence be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on May 19, 2016, at 2 p.m., in room SH-219 of the Hart Senate Office Building. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on May 19, 2016, at 2:30 p.m., in room SD-226 of the Dirksen Senate…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment, be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on May 19, 2016, to conduct a hearing entitled…

I ask unanimous consent that following the cloture vote on the Collins amendment No. 3896, Senator Enzi or his designee be recognized to make a budget point of order against McCain amendment No. 4039; further, that Senator McCain be…

I believe we are going to have that vote a little bit later. I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Georgia. Amendment No. 4039

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on May 19, 2016, at 10:15 a.m., in room SR-328A of the Russell Senate Office Building, to conduct a…

I certainly share the deep concern expressed by my colleague from Utah over the growing size of the Federal debt. It is a serious problem. I encourage him to look at the chart that Senator Alexander has produced, which shows where the…

I ask unanimous consent that there be 2 minutes of debate equally divided prior to each vote in relation to H.R. 2577. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Amendment No. 3900, as Modified Under the previous order…

on this amendment, I yield back the remainder of our time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. All time is yielded back. The question is on agreeing to the amendment. The amendment (No. 3946) was agreed to…

I rise to speak in support of the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs division of the substitute before us. I commend Chairman Kirk and Ranking Member Tester for their leadership in crafting the fiscal year 2017 Military…