I really applaud the specific recommendations you have made and I look forward to working with your organization to see what can be done by way of moving them into legislation.

I will look forward to the September 30 report.

When people know they are being watched, they are going to behave.

A serious effort in Congress, unfortunately, is underway to do away with Medicare, as we know it, and to slash the support the Federal Government provides for Medicaid.

Home health care is so important, and that's one place I think seniors and all of us can really pay attention to.

Thanks to recent laws that the Senator alluded to, such as the Affordable Care Act, which is also known as the health care reform law, and the Small Business Jobs Act that was passed by Congress and that Senator Whitehouse had a great deal…

Well, I think that's a very good and logical next step.

Let me first congratulate Chairman Harkin for his remarks today but more than that the work that has preceded today on the health care bill. He was an ardent advocate for the prevention programs that save lives and money. It was a real…

I ask unanimous consent to speak for 15 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. (The remarks of Mr. Whitehouse pertaining to the introduction of S. 2219 are printed in today's Record…

I am here today to introduce the DISCLOSE Act of 2012, and we are informally closing DISCLOSE 2.0 in recognition of the original bill that Senator Schumer worked so hard to get passed a few years ago. The Supreme Court's 2010 decision in…

I wish to join my colleagues in a tribute to Senator Mikulski. I am delighted to join my colleagues in joining in this tribute to perhaps our favorite colleague, Barbara Mikulski, on her becoming the longest serving woman in congressional…

The American Lung Association has just done a poll that shows 73 percent of Americans understand that you can have solid clean air standards and a strong economy, that they go together.

We are a downwind State. On a bright summer day you drive into work, and the drive time radio is often saying that today is a bad air day.

But in the downwind States and among the general American population, we are in accord with you.

It is very important to Rhode Island as a downwind State to have clean air for our citizens.

I do not believe we are creating a lot of pollution out of Rhode Island that the rest of the country has to worry about.

My theory that it is disconnected by special interest money from the real world, by polluting special interest money from the real world.

I wish to express deep concerns about the so-called JOBS Act sent to us by the House and to commend my senior Senator Jack Reed and Senators Levin and Landrieu for putting forth a balanced and thoughtful alternative. Everyone in this body…

It would be fair to at least put them back in the situation where they were before some lobbyist snuck this into the bill and took away their rights, correct?

you had that expectation disrupted by this law, correct?

it has been something that witnesses have described to us as very important economically for people to be able to restart.

the baseline for student loans until 2005 was that they were dischargeable in bankruptcy?

when you compare that to other countries where a student can get a college degree, essentially on the government or at a very low cost, it builds a huge burden in for individuals.

it applied to all student loans, did it not?