Jay Rockefeller

If the industry is seriously working to improve the safety and security of its ships, why have we witnessed so many serious incidents in the last 16 months?

I would just like you to know that I'm working on legislation to close this loophole.

We are fortunate as a country that Senator Rockefeller and others saw fit to lead the Nation's schools and libraries into the digital era with E-Rate in the 1990s.

Libraries, there are fewer of us, but we are critical to the people that we serve.

the greatest nation in the history of the world, the most technologically advanced--to have its children learn less than other children through this means of technology, is just unforgivable.

In 1996, this Committee saw the power that technology has to transform a person's life.

Due in no small part to the leadership of Senators Rockefeller and Snowe, the E-Rate program from its inception focused on providing high-capacity transmission services to libraries and schools.

In 1996, I brought a 16-year-old high school girl from McDowell County, West Virginia.

In my opinion, we need a permanent increase in E-Rate's annual cap that, at a minimum, meets current demand.

We are facing a Sputnik moment in education. We must act.

I strongly agree with Chairman Rockefeller and FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel and the President that we need a plan to put E-Rate back on track.

The Senate works in mysterious ways.

I submit to you, this afternoon, that we cannot allow E-Rate to slowly expire.

I rise today to introduce the Medicaid Information Technology to Enhance Community Health Act of 2013, or the MITECH Act. I am proud to be joined by my colleagues Senator Franken and Senator Whitehouse in introducing this important piece…

I am chairman of the Commerce Committee. Mayor Anthony Foxx, who is absolutely superb, someone as a mayor, which I like, secondly as an expert on transportation, intermodal and otherwise. He understands the lay of the land and he has done…

on this important day, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder--PTSD--Awareness Day, we must pause to reflect on the contributions of our Nation's veterans and recommit ourselves to a sacred promise that should never be forgotten: that they served…

A closer look at the language in PRWORA and the Social Security Act confirms that the immigration reform bill does not eliminate the States' right to use the ICHIA option to provide coverage to lawfully residing children and pregnant…

Now, I would like to direct a question to my friend Chairman Leahy. Just to be clear, provisions in the bipartisan immigration reform bill do not eliminate a State's right to extend Medicaid and CHIP to any lawfully residing noncitizen…

Moreover, by using the term ``waive'' in section 2323, the Senate is attempting to prohibit Federal officials from using their waiver authority under certain means-tested programs--such as those afforded to agencies in relation to…

I share the Chairman's disappointment that the Senate decided to add section 4417 to explicitly exclude students and tourists from ICHIA coverage, but I also agree with him that by not excluding other categories of lawfully residing…

I would like to take a few moments with my friend Chairman Leahy to discuss the ongoing importance of the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act's impact on lawfully residing noncitizen children and pregnant women. In that…

The legislation introduced last session by Chairman Rockefeller, which focused on promoting research, requiring standards development, and implementing uniform standards, would be an enormous step in the right direction.

The best science is conducted in a scientific setting as opposed to a law enforcement setting.

Scientific and medical assessment conducted in forensic investigation should be independent of law enforcement efforts either to prosecute criminal suspects or even to determine whether a criminal act has indeed been committed.

I have the honor to chair the Commerce Committee and thus have enormous interest in who our next Commerce Secretary is going to be. I don't think the President could have picked anybody better. I have known Penny Pritzker for 30 years. I…