We support the Medical Debt Responsibility Act and thank Senator Merkley for introducing it.
Reform needs to happen now. It should have happened years ago.
Senator Chuck Schumer recently proposed new legislation that would also aid small businesses in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
It is good that you are in so many important positions here in this Senate that will have a lot of say in how we deal with this.
We need help with mitigation. We cannot just rebuild a 108-year-old system and replace it with the parts that existed then.
This one subway station, South Ferry, is going to cost over $500 million, nearly $600 million, to repair.
the MTA is the largest public transportation system in the country. It is the lifeblood of New York.
I want to thank the Ranking Member, Senator Wicker, very much.
we have renewed sympathy for the people of Florida and the Gulf Coast who live with these things regularly.
It would be much better to put it under FTA, the Public Transportation Emergency Relief Program, because they provide grants to states and p...
We want to make sure that the next storm that occurs--now that we are so much the wiser, Senator Nelson, we want to make sure that we are mu...