Bernie Sanders

The Hyde amendment simply prohibits abortions being performed by facilities that receive Federal funding.

Thank you very much, Dr. Draper.

But some of us think maybe the cause of that are two wars that were unpaid for, huge tax breaks for the rich and a Wall Street bailout.

In general, if one walks into an emergency room, one gets the care for the problem that one has.

I am strongly supportive of what they do.

The issue is, it seems to me, is there a need for more primary health care access in the United States of America?

Common sense would suggest that if there was good quality primary health care available to people on a sliding scale basis...

We are calling on Secretary Shinseki to provide testing and notice to those additional patients so that they can be properly cared for.

I believe that the VA has additional information that they need to provide to this community for us to be able to evaluate what happened here.

We need to make sure that they have the peace of mind to know that if they need help, there will be a fully functioning and competent VA here to give them that help when they need it.

This escape-hatch option neither serves our Nation's veterans nor the taxpayer and merits further investigation.

We must make sure that rural areas are not left behind.

Our Federal transportation policy must address rural needs just as it must meet the needs of our Nation's largest ports, urban transit systems, and more heavily traveled highways and bridges.

Our dependence on foreign oil is not a Democratic issue or a Republican issue and the solutions need not be political.

But do you disagree that given the deterioration of the national infrastructure, that we don't need more money?

There is an agreement now that you need more money, is what you are saying?

In my State, you have many people who today living in rural areas, drive 50, 100 miles to work; drive 50, 100 miles back.

My understanding is heavy trucks have a lot more negative impact, destructive impact on bridges than do small cars.

Senator Carper made the point that raising the gas tax is politically unpopular. Well, it is and it should be.

Thank you very much.

We must also take into account projects of regional significance, as well.

But they do more damage than an automobile.

Hospital emergency departments are a major component of the Nation's health care safety net as they are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

If we had the resources, do you think that is something that is useful to explore?

I want people in rural areas to have jobs in their communities.