Sheldon Whitehouse

The Biden budget is a proposal for how to reduce deficits by investing in our families and communities.

There is simply no better communicator of complicated budget procedure and arcana than you.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 7:02 p.m., adjourned until Tuesday, March 12, 2024, at 10:30 a.m.

I have two requests for committees to meet during today's session of the Senate. They have the approval of the Majority and Minority Leaders. Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the following…

The President's Medicare proposal would ask that those at the top 1 and 2 percent to pay 1.2 percent more into Medicare.

We had that wonderful moment in the previous State of the Union when the President talked about Republicans who wanted Medicare and Social Security cuts and they all rose in unanimous opprobrium to say, no, no, no, we don't do that.

There is simply no better communicator of complicated budget procedure and arcana than you.

The Biden budget is a proposal for how to reduce deficits by investing in our families and communities.

My Medicare and Social Security Fair Share Act would implement the Medicare tax proposals in the Biden budget and ensure that Medicare can pay out 100 percent of Medicare benefits indefinitely.

Tax cuts simply do not pay for themselves.

Creating a safe, prosperous, and fair nation: Those are our values.

If that's true, the only other way to ensure long-term solvency is making the wealthy chip in more.

I very much hope that your testimony and all of the responses and engagement from my colleagues create a platform for some really important bipartisan work.

If we don't rebuild that trusting relationship, Medicare is in deep trouble from a financial and a security standpoint.

Overall, the U.S. spends 50 percent more of its GDP on healthcare than any other country

When the Chairman of Finance wants to talk about healthcare reforms, we're all ears.

I very much hope that your testimony and all of the responses and engagement from my colleagues create a platform for some really important bipartisan work.

We have to create incentives for physicians, clinicians, advanced practitioners who are training to choose primary care.

We support the model. We just don't think we're training enough general contractors.

And it strikes me that trying to move primary care physicians into the general contractor model...

If we don't rebuild that trusting relationship, Medicare is in deep trouble from a financial and a security standpoint.

You want to encourage that kind of behavior and thankfully they did a lot of listening.

I used to tell them that the way you're dealing with shared savings you are starving your lead dogs.

Overall, the U.S. spends 50 percent more of its GDP on healthcare than any other country

When the Chairman of Finance wants to talk about healthcare reforms, we're all ears.