Carolyn B. Maloney: “I salute the life and work of Mr. William N. Hubbard and I ask my fellow Members of Congress to join me in recognizing…”

While the bill's restoration of funding to skilled nursing facilities is favorable, only a band-aid, temporary remedy is provided for outpatient hospital departments.

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

We cannot allow the opportunities afforded us by stem cell research to go untapped!

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.