I'm proud of our work on Cures to address head-on some of the hardest to treat diseases by providing nearly $4.8 billion in funding for the NIH.

Cures was really first and foremost about providing hope, hope to the millions of people and families who are impacted by illness and disease.

In the 21st Century Cures Act, I was also proud to champion provisions to improve the inclusion of historically underrepresented populations--including women, racial and ethnic minorities, children, and seniors--in clinical research.

I was very proud to champion provisions in the Cures Act to improve the inclusion of historically underrepresented populations.

I'm glad that Cures took an important first step and dedicated over $1 billion in new funding above and beyond the budget caps to help states and communities fight back against that crisis.

Reasonably accurate and complete estimates of the workforce are crucial to well-functioning government programs and to many private initiatives.

I am really concerned that the Department is now sending a signal to schools that sexual assault will not be taken as serious.

I personally am disappointed the administration has not taken decisive action to address it.

I come to the floor this afternoon to speak on behalf of myself, along with Senator Wyden, about the incredible healthcare impacts that this tax bill will have on families. It is astonishing just how far my Republican colleagues are…

I hope we can all agree that the opioid crisis is an issue that, no matter what else is going on, cannot afford further inaction.

This epidemic does not discriminate, it can reach anyone, and it can reach anywhere.

the American people have gotten a lot of lip service over the past 10 months. Remember draining the swamp and fighting for the forgotten families? The President apparently forgot them when he filled the Cabinet with a who's who of Wall…

They have a very different goal here. They are not looking for the tougher, sicker, harder to reach, more rural folks to sign up.

Do you share the goal of making sure as many people as possible, who may be sicker, who may be harder to reach, more rural, or communities that have not been reached before should be part of what we are working on?

Do you believe that all women should have access to the healthcare their doctor recommends for them? Yes or no.

I am very concerned about and I am going to be watching very closely to make sure that really vital program is implemented.

I think women's access to healthcare their doctor requires for them should take precedence, but we disagree on that.

I do have some additional questions.

I think the cost of drugs, the high cost, is something I hear about more than anything else.

the reason that we very adamantly support that is because many people are now getting access to care through insurance that did not get it before.

The goal is to have as many people as possible insured, have access, get their preventive care, and do not show up in emergency rooms costing everybody else.

The intent of the longer enrollment, which this Administration has cut in half and made it more difficult.

I wish to make a statement about the second vote we are going to have, and I urge my colleagues to vote against the nomination of David Zatezalo as the Mine Safety and Health Administrator. MSHA is responsible for protecting the safety and…

we will continue to focus on that.

Rather than promoting the health of their workers, that would actually allow employers to prevent female employees from having coverage.