Jim McDermott: “What leverage do we have in terms of forcing the States to pay their debts to the Federal Government?”

These falls can result in serious injuries and expensive hospitalizations.

It has been a pleasure serving on this committee.

To make that a reality we have to move the conversation in Congress away from harmful ideas like privatizing the program and cutting seniors' benefits.

We have made some substantive bipartisan progress recently. We need to build on our success.