09/29/2010
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"I look forward to hearing from our witnesses today, and I will turn to Ranking Member Braun for his opening statement."
"We need to address the chronic underfunding and understaffing for the state agencies that conduct nursing home oversight, so they can effectively protect the health and safety of residents."
"Every American who wants to receive care at home should be able to do so, and the workers providing that care must be paid, in my judgment, a living wage."
"If we say we are, as a Nation, the United States, the greatest country in the world, then we have to have the best, not second, not third, the best long-term care in the world, and we are not there ye..."