I would love to see that continued. We kind of broke the back of opposition to telehealth generally, and I do not think there is really any going back on that.

I will go as far as you want to go, Dr. DeCherrie, on this. My problem is, I have been jammed up in CMMI for 10 years trying to get it just for those patients.

It is kind of cruel to the family to deny them those supports because of some funding requirement that is not even designed for that population but has terrible effects on families and their access to care.

This is my longest lasting frustration in the Senate.

I further ask that the Lee amendment to the committee-reported amendment to the resolution be considered and agreed to; the committee-reported amendment, as amended, be agreed to; the resolution, as amended, be agreed to; that the Lee…

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 6:27 p.m., adjourned until Tuesday, May 18, 2021, at 10 a.m.

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions be discharged from further consideration of H.R. 941 and the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report…

I have a request for one committee to meet during today's session of the Senate. It has the approval of the Majority and Minority leaders. Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the following committee…

I ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered read for a third time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The bill was ordered to a third reading and was read the third time.

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the consideration of S. Res. 217, submitted earlier today. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution by title. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: A…

I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 10 a.m., Tuesday, May 18; that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the Journal of proceedings be approved to date…

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the consideration of S. Res. 218, submitted earlier today. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution by title. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: A…

I know of no further debate on the bill. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there further debate? The bill having been read the third time, the question is, Shall the bill pass? The bill (H.R. 941) was passed.

I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without…

I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection…

I think any notion that this was a coincidence or a fluke is living in a dream world.

I pushed very hard on the Department of Justice to make sure they were not just challenging the people who came through the windows and doors of the Capitol but looking upstream to who might have been behind it.

The bipartisan Medicaid Reentry Act allows inmates within 30 days of release to enroll in Medicaid.

The Chinese economy is more than three times as carbon-intensive as the U.S. economy.

A Senator of the United States is an ambulance converging point for pressures and counter-pressures of high, medium, and low purposes.

the U.S. had not only been weak, but it actually tried to weaken proposals that everybody else was trying to agree to.

I would hope and expect that would be honored.

The IRS conservatively estimates the tax gap--the difference between taxes owed and taxes collected--to be $441 billion per year.

are these the people Senator Whitehouse cavalierly joked about at the end of the hearing when he lamented over the missed opportunity to add a T to the end of FATCA?

And will you help us define whatever we may need to do legislatively, or by way of oversight, to make sure we close that gap?