Tell me about that example and the reason you raise that example in your testimony.

There has to be a way that the Federal Government can be a constructive partner.

The heroic nature of what these individuals, these families are doing.

Chairman Collins, thank you very much, and thanks for getting us started on this important issue.

We hope we do not have to have future hearings on this topic, but I am afraid we may.

We need to also normalize. We talk about grandfamilies living in isolation. Grandfamilies--and I am a grandmom--need to know they are not alone in this fight, in this crisis.

We want to first of all express our gratitude to you for being here again after having appeared in Pittsburgh.

I am concerned, however, that allies of ours like those in the EU may amend their past position on market economy status.

It is time the Federal Government keeps its promise.

Coal miners and their families do not need to spend any additional time--in this case month after month--with the fear and the uncertainty of not having health care or the pensions that they earned.

Despite promises from China in their WTO accession, China continues to exercise significant control over both their state-owned enterprises and factors of production.

The cyber-theft of intellectual property and trade secrets can have a significant impact on both U.S. innovators and manufacturers.

I thank Senator Cantwell for raising the issue about the impact of this decision that the Congress will make with regard to a particular healthcare bill and then also, particularly, the Medicaid consequences. I was just looking at what is…

I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Republican Healthcare Bill

I rise today to offer a few comments about the House Republican bill that was just unveiled yesterday. Those who have been promoting it or those who have been working on this issue for a couple of weeks are claiming it is a new healthcare…

I rise today, as I have every year that I have been in the Senate, which is quite a long time now--the last 10 years, going into 11--to give some remarks in commemoration of Black History Month. The way I have done that, and the way our…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. ERNST). Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

I rise this afternoon to speak in opposition to the nomination of the Oklahoma attorney general, Scott Pruitt, to be the next Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency which we all know as the EPA. My concern--I have a number of…

It is important that every child has access to high-quality health coverage.

If confirmed, I will work to ensure that CMS appropriately implements the statutes within its purview.

I want to see us get beyond what has come to be known as 'repeal and run.'

The President could have taken steps to create more stability on a bipartisan basis, but instead issued an executive order.

Privatizing Medicare is the wrong direction in my view.

If States have an idea--better coverage, lower costs--God bless them, we are all for it, but we cannot use 1332 or any other provision for the States to do worse.

It means not discriminating against those with a preexisting condition no matter what.