Bob Casey

There's a very substantial agenda that is needed for early childhood education in this country.

I'm grateful for that. I know that in our coming together here in the Senate and the House to pass ESSA...

I think part of that can be Federal Government policy, working with the States in partnership.

I'm not just a believer in the value of early learning but the good news is all the research validates that belief.

I have been working for a long time with Senator Portman on this. So we are grateful for that work.

Success will come from adopting approaches that can be driven by a physician practice.

Let me add my voice to those concerns that were raised.

Practices are changing. I thought your opening statement hit the nail right on the head...

I cannot go anywhere in Indiana and talk to hospital administrators or others without this issue coming up...

Clearly, the intent of the bill is not being exercised here, and so I really want to thank you...

Stark is just an extraordinary barrier, not intended. It was well-intended, understandably. But I would completely repeal the compensation-related components of Stark.

This is complicated, and we are grateful that you bring your own experience and scholarship to this.

We just want to hear all those voices, especially the voices of educators.

I appreciate that because we can't seek to have great teachers in classrooms if we don't have great professional development.

I've often said that if kids learn more now, they'll earn more later, and that's not just a rhyme, it's literally the truth.

Thanks very much. I appreciate Senator Whitehouse and Senator Collins convening this hearing.

That gap, which is what we're talking about here, and the $82 billion--and thank you for introducing the legislation, because that would close that gap for roughly all children under the age of 4 at 200 percent of poverty or below.

Low-income families simply cannot afford what it costs to access high-quality child care in this country.

I would like to thank Senator Casey for his leadership on introducing legislation that mirrors the spirit of the President's proposal to expand high-quality care to all infants and toddlers from low-and moderate-income families.

We saw in New Jersey after Sandy that Princeton University was able to keep the lights on through its resiliency program, but large parts of the state did not, including our mass transit system.

I think it is intellectually misleading--I will leave it at that, not to be harsher--that there is no consideration of the down side.

We need to provide an extension for the 13 clean energy tax credits that will expire at the end of this year.

Giving these same companies billions of dollars in tax breaks, to me, makes no financial sense.

I believe it is well past time for us to reconsider some of these choices.

I have introduced legislation called the Close Big Oil Tax Loopholes Act.