Shelley Berkley

We also have to work on our estate tax to pre-2001 levels. I look forward to that discussion with the bill I introduced with Congressman Brady as a basis for the debate. Let's get moving. This is the easy stuff. This we should pass without…

I rise today in support of the Senate amendments to H.R. 3219, the Veterans' Insurance and Health Care Improvements Act. It is this Nation's responsibility, indeed, it is our honor, to provide care to the brave men and women who have…

I rise in very strong support of this bill. This is a product of a 2-year investigation into international child sex tourism and exploitation. International Megan's Law would establish a system for providing advance notice to foreign…

The Republicans in the Senate are once again doing everything they can to destroy Medicare for millions of seniors by blocking legislation that will stop the 21 percent cut in payments to doctors who care for our elderly citizens. They say…

Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz, my family story is very much an American Jewish story. And not unlike so many millions of other American Jews that came to our shores from other places, my mother's side of the family comes from…

A full, outright and permanent repeal of this tax is the best solution.

Where is the patient responsibility in any of this?

I know that in the State of Nevada, in my district, we do not have enough nephrologists, we do not have enough gastro guys, we do not have enough surgeons, and we do not have enough cardiac specialists or cancer doctors.

I support increasing incentives for primary care physicians. However, I do not agree that these incentives must or should be provided by lowering reimbursement to other providers.

We need to be careful about unintended consequences in implementing reforms.

My district has the fastest growing senior population in the United States. We have no option but for Congress to take steps to ensure that seniors are able to see a doctor and receive appropriate care.

I think we all appreciate that if health care spending in our country continues to rise at the current rate as we baby boomers reach retirement, that the promised benefits under Medicare are unsustainable.

We must find a way to mitigate the economic impact on low- and middle-income families, which will face a disproportionate burden, and I look forward to being a part of the process.

Without a safe solution to the nuclear issue, our attention should be on how to produce more clean energy, like solar, wind, and geothermal.

Yucca Mountain is not an option, and I would submit to you that the State of Nevada will never be a repository for this nation's energy nuclear waste.

Nuclear power is not a clean source of energy, because it has a toxic, lethal, radioactive byproduct, which is nuclear waste, that this nation has not figured out what it's going to do with.

I think moving toward renewable energy and energy independence is not only an environmental issue, which I believe it is, not only an economic issue, which I believe it is, but it's a national security imperative.

The way we do healthcare in this country, in my opinion, is 'bass ackward'.

If we don't fix this, we have a 20 percent cut coming up, and that is impossible to lay on the doctors.

We have a system now that the hospitals hate, the doctors hate, and the patients hate.

As you know, we have attempted on numerous occasions to take the military aid, the $2 billion in military aid that we give the Egyptians every year, and take some of that away so that it would be humanitarian aid for the Egyptian people…

I just want to end this myth about competition. How can anybody claim that the gaming casinos are afraid of competition and the free market when the tribes are playing by a different set of rules? Talk about unfair competition, the Indians…

This, remember, is based on a suspect land claim that has already been thrown out of the State and Federal courts so that they can open up a casino hundreds of miles from their ancestral lands and in direct competition with existing…

All of these taken together aren't earth-shattering and they're not going to change the way that we collect taxes in this country, but it's going to help, and it's going to help millions of our fellow Americans. On Tax Day, let's pass…

And we could see the house. I mean, they didn't have to go it's over there behind the mountain, no, no, there it was. And I have to tell you something else. One of the ministers that we met with said this about the conferences, and again…