Sheldon Whitehouse

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it adjourn under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 7:10 p.m. adjourned until Tuesday, June 26, 2012, at 10 a.m…

Under the previous order, the Senate will proceed to executive session at 11:30 a.m. tomorrow and vote on confirmation of the Rosenbaum nomination at noon. We also hope to complete action on the FDA bill. ____________________

I just wanted to be clear that this did not displace my legislation.

I wonder if I could ask any of the witnesses to speak for a mom about the procedure known as 'voter caging'...

And the reason that this is pernicious is because political organizations do it targeting specific neighborhoods in order to challenge the vote out of that neighborhood, and they choose neighborhoods that are associated with strong votes…

They get the benefit of knocking down jobs in the runup to the election, which I think is a disgraceful way to go about the Nation's business. But we cannot move them. The irony and the tragedy here is, if Speaker Boehner would call up…

We have six Senators, including the occupant of the chair, the Senator from New York, on the floor today in the majority time to discuss the jammed bipartisan Senate highway bill. I heard my colleague from Georgia talk about how we are…

The nurse navigator has responsibility for addressing not only the concerns of the patient, but also addressing the questions of the family.

It strikes me that there are circumstances in which, although we silo conceptually curative care from palliative care, that there are nevertheless circumstances in which well-delivered palliative care has a significant curative effect.

As you pointed out, Senator, just as a patient's death doesn't happen in isolation, it affects the family that lives on.

It's actually reported in Rhode Island now as a vital sign.

The issue of failure of directives is one that I think is particularly concerning.

Unfortunately, the whole fantasy about death panels emerged out of a very sensitive amendment proposed by actually a Republican colleague of mine.

If we can get a pilot rolling on this, it would surely prove that it actually saved money

This was a really superb panel, and I think it helps us make a wonderful record for pursuing action in this area.

Son, I'm finished. I've done everything that I've wanted to do in life. Do not use any of your abilities and skills to save my life. I am ready.

The last area where we should be cutting Medicare reimbursements is for hospice and home-based care.

It's vital for patients, their families, and our overall healthcare system.

Models such as this need to be replicated throughout our country.

Thank you, Chairman Kohl, for starting us off today with those very thoughtful remarks.

Thank you for your leadership of the Aging Committee and for the wonderful work you've done to protect our seniors.

I just think that is absolutely wrong, and I will pursue the question again in questions for the record.

To our colleagues, I announce that it is the intention of the majority leader to resume consideration of the motion to proceed to S. 3240, the farm bill, when the Senate convenes tomorrow. At 10:30 a.m., there will be a cloture vote on the…

We recommend that the Department of Justice give serious consideration to a departmentwide default open file policy.

Absolutely dead wrong, as proven by reality. It is not just a theoretical wrongness, it is a factual, actual wrongness.