I do not think there is anything in that law that prevents the Department of Justice from saying to the IRS, 'Excuse me, why are you not referring this to me?'

This is a systemic issue which should be fixed with an eye to the long-term health of our democracy.

I suspect that those discrepancies reflect false statements that could be prosecuted under 18 U.S.C. Section 1001.

That would be consistent with a recurring problem that we are seeing in the American corporate world, which is an effort to privatize profits and socialize costs.

As Senator Whitehouse so eloquently said, we need to move away from the rigidified--the disjointed--Medicare fee-for-service system to a much more collaborative and communicative thing with doctors and hospitals and health plans all…

It is my great honor to have the opportunity to introduce Dr. Raymond Welch.

For the record, I have never seen an ambulance in Rhode Island go to an insurance office.

I hope you will concede that the testimony we have heard today shows that for a lot of consumers this choice by United has been a very anxious-making, discouraging, inconveniencing and, in some cases, potentially even care-threatening or…

You would think very much that a high-value network determination would pick up the deadness of a doctor.

It is a consumer protection problem that has a particular burden for those who are the most ill and the most vulnerable.

Which we take terribly seriously, so thank you for mentioning that.

Medicare Advantage was supposed to compete head to head with Medicare and that she promised that it would be less expensive than Medicare.

We need to level the playing field with traditional Medicare.

They have to keep building coal plants for a while because their economy is growing so fast that they need the power.

But if you make it revenue neutral, then every single dollar of it goes back to the American public.

If our fossil fuel industry is trying to sabotage our clean energy industry for immediate market share advantage, it is doing a long term disservice to the economy and to the well-being of our country.

I will just take a little bit of my time to respond to Senator Sessions' suggestion that one scientist says that climate change isn't really happening and that there really isn't an association with storms.

Every company has a responsibility to reduce greenhouses gases as quickly as it can.

I want our American industries to be the leaders in that.

What I can't accept is that the coal and oil jobs are the only jobs that are at stake in this discussion.

Climate change may not cause hurricanes but warmer ocean water can make them more powerful.

For what it is worth, I just came back from China. I went there with Senator McCain.

I will ask Ms. McCarthy, on the spectrum between wisdom and recklessness, where you put placing a bet that this evidence shows that climate change has stopped.

We are losing our State at the coastal verge. The houses at Roy Carpenter's beach are falling into the ocean.

Let me just briefly welcome our witnesses to this chamber, one in which reality is so often suspended, one in which science is so often twisted and mocked and one in which the power of special interests to manipulate American democracy is…