Bob Casey

We have an obligation to act, and I've heard it from folks all across Pennsylvania.

I know this is true of a number of Senators, legislation to take steps in the right direction.

I also have legislation I've authored to expand low-income protection for seniors and people with disabilities.

We want to be fully transparent on what we see coming and we are trying to do that.

This pandemic is an inflection point for the United States. Do not let it go to waste.

7 billion fought for by Senator Casey in the American Rescue Plan for expansion of Medicaid home and community-based services is an excellent step forward to realizing the promise of Olmstead.

The terrible impact of COVID-19 on seniors in long-term care isn't a red State or a blue State issue.

If milestones are not met within six to 24 months (median time of one year), a temporary manager, change in management/ownership or the closure of the facility may be required.

The Biden administration is already working to turn things around, starting with ramping up vaccinations.

The Trump administration did not want people to know about what was going on in nursing homes.

AARP appreciates the bipartisan work that you and Senator Casey put into the Nursing Home Reform Modernization Act.

It would have served Adelina and her colleagues better if we had done this earlier, but at least we got it done at last.

I worked with Senator Toomey, my colleague from Pennsylvania, on work we did in connection with the Special Focus Facility program.

We have to start voting with you--both parties, both Houses, both branches of government--to lift up the caregiving workforce.

I am grateful to be working with Senator Toomey, because some of this work can be and must be bipartisan.

I have legislation to establish supplemental rules of origin for nonmarket economies like China.

I know that there are communities that fit that description in Ohio, plenty of them in Pennsylvania.

Your family story and your story is a great American story of success and hard work.

Through our Trade Subcommittee in the Finance Committee, in the last Congress, Senator Cornyn and I worked on a range of issues posed by the Chinese Government.

As you undertake your work at USTR in furtherance of the President, President Biden's racial equity executive order, I want to note the intersectional issues of gender and race, and hope that they would be incorporated and considered.

I especially appreciated your reference to, quote, 'trade policies that enhance the interests of all Americans,' unquote.

We face just a myriad of challenges when it comes to the Chinese Government especially.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 6:51 p.m., adjourned until Wednesday, February 24, 2021, at 12…

Medicaid, in so many ways, is not 'some program.' It tells us who we are.

We need to invest now.