Al Franken

the patent itself also protects a lot of Minnesota businesses.

The HITECH was great, because it really spurred this investment in health records.

You have to reduce some of the penalties that are imposed on providers, and you have to encourage the use of electronic health records.

An Accountable Care Organization would want to steal your healthy patients.

It's incredibly essential that we do this, because it helps operations, things like Accountable Care Organizations and patient-centered medical homes and bundled payments.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for this hearing.

I think everyone sees that the burning of fossil fuels is creating an opportunity to find more fossil fuels to burn.

I think it is time for a legislative action to compel them to do what they should have done from the beginning.

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We need to do a better job, those of us on the Committee, of talking to our colleagues about the importance of this.

I do want to know what the FY 2016 funding increase will mean for the Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School in Leech Lake.

I think it is time to examine Native American programs across the Federal Government and evaluate priorities for Indian Country.

I rise today to talk about the funding for the Department of Homeland Security and the continuing need for immigration reform. We need to fund the Department of Homeland Security and we should pass a clean DHS funding bill. That is the…

This is just unacceptable.

Our native children have so many challenges that face them.

I have a bipartisan bill that would require universities to use a uniform financial aid award letter so that students and their families will know exactly how much college will cost them.

People who are organized who are in unions, on average, do a lot better.

I think there's a correlation. What the causation is exactly is hard to say, but I think there is some causation.

Maybe this is a really good time for people, especially some educated people who were foregoing this for their children, to understand things like herd immunity.

What the costs are--just like the financial costs--there was a 2005 NIH article that attempted to quantify the economic impact on health infrastructure.

It's obviously cost-effective and also prevents a lot of suffering.

That's why the CDC is so important. I really want to thank you for your service to this Nation and to the world.

OK. Well, that doesn't make a lot of sense to me and, frankly, it just doesn't seem fair.

If I'm understanding that correctly, that means that if a worker at McDonald's doesn't get paid minimum wage, then McDonald's, the corporation, would be responsible as a joint employer because it exerts enough control over that worker.