Tina Smith: “Transit options are essential for people to get to work or school or to the doctor and to buy groceries.”

But many rural hospitals face increasingly dire financial strain and workforce shortages, forcing them to cut services or even close down altogether.

Just shut up. Stop peddling bulls--t. You should be fired.

I don’t know whether Sen. Lee thought fully through what it was, you’d have to ask him, but I needed him to hear from me directly what impact I think his cruel statement had on me, his colleague.

I think we're at a tipping point.