I rise today to talk about the changes the affordable care act is making to the way care is delivered in our health care system. This is a topic that has not received much public attention. Instead, the public debate has largely focused on…

I wonder if the Senator would yield for a question. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Rhode Island.

Setting aside the questions that this raises about the House's ability to govern, which I think are raised by this issue but focusing on this highway question, it is now the end of March. If we go 90 days, 30 days takes us through the end…

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 7:07 p.m., adjourned until Thursday, March 29, 2012, at 9:30 a.m…

I would urge you to continue to press forward in every way you can to make sure that the orphan drugs... are pursued.

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the consideration of S. Res. 408, which was submitted earlier today. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution by title. The legislative clerk read as follows: A…

I come to the floor of the Senate this evening to urge Speaker Boehner and the House of Representatives to pass the bipartisan Senate highway jobs bill now. This is an important bill that would save or create nearly 3 million jobs with…

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to S. Res. 409, submitted earlier today. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution by title. The legislative clerk read as follows: A resolution (S. Res. 409) designating…

I am informed that the first vote tomorrow will be at approximately 11:30 in the morning on the motion to invoke cloture on the Repeal Big Oil Tax Subsidies Act. The Transportation bill expires at the end of the month. That will also have…

I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it stand adjourned until Thursday, March 29, at 9:30 a.m.; that following the prayer and pledge, the Journal of proceedings be approved to date, the morning hour be…

I think that there are obvious exceptions to the open file rule, witness safety being preeminent.

I think that with those protections, less is likely to go wrong than in prosecutions that are based on a hide-the-ball strategy.

There is nothing in the Quadrennial Review that doubts or denies the science behind climate change, correct?

Is it fair to say that each one of our military services neither doubts nor denies the reality of climate changes caused by carbon pollution?

America's oil dependence leaves us dangerously vulnerable. America spends over $1 billion per day overseas for oil.

I am very alert to the oversight functions of Congress of what we could from a regulatory and oversight perspective.

We are trying to bring new technologies that have proven themselves in other fields to bear, to watch the payment of claims.

The good news is that Federal, State and local law enforcement, using both traditional and new data-driven techniques of the kind Senator Whitehouse alluded to, are working effectively and efficiently to combat these schemes.

I started thinking how much older people can give back to their community.

I wanted to find out a little bit more about what we might be able to do to raise that limit, knowing that it would be a good thing.

This hearing was enormously helpful. I know we got tremendous publicity around the program.

I think one of the reasons that Rhode Island is not a hot spot and that people can get away with these huge billing scams in other places is that in Rhode Island, we do tend to know each other.

The Senior Medicare Patrol is such a good idea. How do you recruit people for it?

We help lower hospital admissions, help keep people living in their communities, and assist those at the end of life, ensuring that their final days are comfortable and dignified, and that their families are supported and cared for, as…

We do two things in Congress. One is to legislate and create new laws. The other is to oversee the executive branch of government and its administration of laws that already exist.