Al Franken

You have a better case for things that are working.

We need to be ambassadors to the rest of the Senate and tell them the scale of the problems in Indian Country.

I would like to introduce Melanie, who again, in Ojibwe, her name means Sunny Goggles.

Shouldn't we be collecting data on what works?

It is important to have tailored programs for Native peoples.

It needs to be wrapped together.

I rise today to talk about the Department of Labor's proposal to provide overtime pay to more Americans, a step that could affect as many as 90,000 middle-class workers in Minnesota and nearly 5 million around the country. Right now, if…

I ask unanimous consent to speak for up to 10 minutes as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Overtime Pay

If one EHR vendor is designing a technology that is not completely compatible with other systems and using its market clout to pressure providers to buy its product, doesn't this raise some serious legal concerns about anticompetitive…

In Minnesota, we like value-based models because we are good at them, and we kind of lead the country in that.

I find it ironic that large vendors who claim huge amounts of interoperability are primarily exchanging data with themselves, with other installations of their own product.

Gaming is also a source of jobs and economic development.

Indian gaming provides tribes what the Federal Government so often fails to provide, which is resources, resources that serve the needs of their members.

a U.S. Senator from the State of Minnesota

Incentives do matter, and you could have predicted those behaviors ahead of time with those universities when you incentivized just the enrollments.

Congress routinely fails to adequately fund Indian programs, whether we are talking about health or education, housing or transportation.

That is why proper oversight of gaming and gaming regulators is so important.

A big part of that is about the total expenditure, not just the cost.

We don't want to do that, right?

What you should expect of the institution, what you should expect of the provider of post-secondary learning.

There are many lessons to be learned from that.

Is that what was called, disparagingly, I think, robo?

This is my first hearing as Ranking Member of the Employment and Workplace Safety Subcommittee, and I look forward to working with my friend, Chairman Isakson.

Isn't that essentially--that's compounded? Is that the----

I've heard from stakeholders who said they are participating in this process and are thankful that the department has provided opportunities for feedback.