Carolyn B. Maloney: “I've known him for 20 years, and he's always been a champion of the middle class and working for economic opportunities…”

The teaching hospitals are the 'safety net' hospitals that care for the nation's low-income and uninsured patients when they are sick and have nowhere else to turn.

The restorations come at the expense of direct- graduate- medical- education funding. This means that teaching hospitals in my state will be deprived of $100 to $130 million dollars over 5 years.

I thank you, Chairman Schumer.

I believe that we can do a better job at protecting our Medicare beneficiaries, providers and teaching hospitals. I urge a 'no' vote.