I share your concern about the impact of sequestration on the Intelligence Community.

NOAA is committed to 'doing everything we can to help them transition through these difficult times'.

I rise today to introduce the Volunteer Emergency Services Recruitment and Retention Act of 2013. This bill fixes a long-standing problem with the tax code that impedes the ability of volunteer fire departments to recruit and retain both…

Susan Collins is invited.

let me begin my remarks by thanking the distinguished chairman of the Judiciary Committee for his very gracious comments and for his extraordinary leadership on a bill that I believe can bring all of us together. I also want to thank our…

I rise today to discuss two separate problems facing our Nation--the first is sequestration, which is underway now and indiscriminately affecting a wide range of programs. The second is the prospect of a long-term Continuing Resolution to…

I rise to discuss an amendment I have filed to the bills dealing with sequestration. I am pleased that Senator King has joined me as a cosponsor. Our amendment is the fiscal year 2013 Department of Defense appropriations bill that was…

I rise to introduce the National Women's History Museum Commission Act of 2013, a bill that would create a commission to evaluate and plan the establishment of a museum dedicated to women's history in our Nation's capital city. I…

I think this is a result of the recession and the result of cuts to providers.

Medicare is a critically important program that provides essential health coverage for more than 50 million of our Nation's seniors and disabled citizens.

I rise today to discuss the President's nomination of former Senator Chuck Hagel to be Secretary of Defense. I know Senator Chuck Hagel well from having served with him for many years in the Senate. We were sworn in as Senators on the same…

if we keep cutting providers' reimbursements under the same system and do not reform the delivery of health care, we eventually are going to affect access and that concerns me greatly.

I am an original cosponsor of the Medicare Diabetes Prevention Act that we will be reintroducing shortly that would require Medicare to provide coverage for community-based intervention that is offered through hospitals such as the YMCA to…

Medicare has made an invaluable contribution to the lives of more than 130 million older Americans and individuals with disabilities since its creation in 1965.

It is, however, time for our country to have a serious debate about how to secure the future of Medicare.

is it over time just does have an erosive and corrosive effect on not only the payment rates, obviously, but in terms of access--potentially, access to care.

I do not think we have seen a transformation. I see it very differently from my colleague from Massachusetts.

If an individual with diabetes has these terrible consequences of diabetes that is not well controlled and, for example, needs to have a leg amputated, Medicare is going to pay for that.

It seems to me we are not paying for the right things.

Sequester Would Hit Hard Already Fiscally Strapped Local Education Agencies

I am delighted to rise in strong support of the confirmation of William Kayatta of Maine to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Mr. Kayatta was originally nominated to this position more than 1 year ago. He was…

The fact is, however, I believe we do have a spending problem, and the $16.5 trillion debt is ample evidence of that.

These indiscriminate cuts represent an utter failure to set priorities, and we simply cannot allow sequestration to go into effect.

first, let me say, I am very pleased to join with my friend and colleague from New Hampshire to speak out against the indiscriminate meat-ax cuts known in Washington as sequestration that are scheduled to take effect in just 2 weeks' time…

first I wish to commend the Senator from New Hampshire for broadening the debate and reminding all of us of the macroeconomic impact, as well as the impact on our two States. The estimate is that Maine's defense industry--which includes…