Sheldon Whitehouse

Where there are geographic pockets, let me suggest that you try to establish working relationships with local investigative authorities.

Geographic variability consistent through time, i.e., it is the same places?

A U.S. Senator from the State of Rhode Island

I have heard from companies who are major providers of services to investors who are totally on board with the notion that they should have the responsibility of meeting the fiduciary standard.

She has led a letter to the Appropriations Committee to support diabetes research, and we are all happy to be Senator Collins' wingmen on this issue.

This is the most inappropriate Aging Committee hearing I have ever seen, and it is terrific to see this blue sea of young faces.

There is an enormous amount of support in this room for the continuous glucose monitoring, and the bill to make that a part of Medicare is Senator Collins.

I expect I will take less than the 20 minutes, just to reassure you, but I want to reserve that much time. ____________________

I have a bill to exactly that effect, that appears to comport with at least the general principles that most of the Republican study groups that have looked at this issue require, i.e., that the money go back to the American people and not…

There is clearly a price.

I appreciate very much my measure related to composite technologies has been included by agreement.

I'm interested in how that arrangement is different than the relationship between the Wall Street banks and the credit rating agencies.

I hope that we're able to go forward in a bipartisan and productive way, as has been the hallmark so far of Senator Alexander and Chairman Murray and this committee.

I think that while nobody wants a central command somewhere at CMS directing every iota of the development of this process and probably inhibiting it, we are responsible here in Congress for setting the terms under which industry will…

That's a system that's gotten a little out of hand.

My experience is that when you've got that much data, people are a lot less accountable about when they meet the standard because they can find some other standard where they did OK.

A U.S. Senator from the State of Rhode Island

Therefore, it is not in order for me to call up an amendment to the Defense bill. I will come back and get this amendment pending at the appropriate time on the floor. ____________________

I understand that we are now in a period of morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Fischer). The Senator is correct.

Children should stay indoors. Elderly should stay indoors. People with lung or breathing difficulties should stay indoors.

When you build those high smoke stacks, you shoot the pollution, the SOx and the NOx.

We also know overall that, at least at the 70 ppb standard, the estimated health care savings and benefits, the estimated environmental savings and benefits, the estimated economic savings and benefits from that rule could add as much as…

The present regulation is one that was conceived in scandal.

Given that we're loaning the big banks money at virtually zero percent, why not help students like Ashley?

It seems fairly recently that we had the news that student loan debt in the country broke through a trillion dollars, and now it appears to be at $1.3 trillion.