I am open to any suggestions that you might have for ways we can bring that down.

If we are not using more health care, why is it, as Senator Alexander said, why is it we are spending twice as much?

We face some of the highest health care costs in the country.

Providers are sometimes forced to toss expired biomedical products that have been purchased, but not used.

It sounds great on paper, and in lots of places it works, but in large parts of Alaska, it is going to be a challenge.

Now, we talk about price transparency, both Senator Murray and Senator Alexander brought that up.

We have spent, as a country, quite a bit of time, and this Committee has led so much of the work, thinking about drug prices and appropriately so.

section 251 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, BBEDCA, establishes statutory limits on discretionary spending and allows for various adjustments to those limits. In addition, sections 302 and 314(a) of the…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Secretary, I want to thank you for appearing here today and also for putting out the list of potential things that can be done.

I wish to submit to the Senate the budget scorekeeping report for June 2018. The report compares current-law levels of spending and revenues with the amounts the Senate agreed to in the budget resolution for fiscal year 2018, H. Con. Res…

as we approach Memorial Day weekend, we will soon pause to honor and remember the members of our Armed Forces who have paid the ultimate price in service to our country. As Americans, we honor all our veterans who have sacrificially fought…

I come from the least-populated State in the Nation. Our biggest city is 60,000.

Ted and I agree on about 80 percent of the stuff, and we disagree on about 20 percent of the stuff.

the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, P.L.115- 123, included an instruction to the chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget to file allocations, aggregates, and budgetary levels in the Senate before May 15, 2018. Today I rise to submit…

I wish to submit to the Senate the budget scorekeeping report for April 2018. The report compares current-law levels of spending and revenues with the amounts the Senate agreed to in the budget resolution for fiscal year 2018, H. Con. Res…

on March 22, 2018, I filed adjustments to enforceable budgetary levels to accommodate spending in H.R. 1625, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018, P.L. 115-141. Included in the spending that qualified for cap adjustments was program…

I wish to thank the Senator from Georgia for those comments, and I would like to associate myself with all of them. We should have saved it for the concluding speech, I think. I rise today to also honor a man who has spent the last 46…

on February 9, 2018, the President signed the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 into law, H.R. 1892, P.L. 115-123. This bill passed the Senate by a vote of 71 to 28 and the House of Representatives by a vote of 240 to 186. Section 30101 of…

today I wish to honor and recognize the outstanding service of Mark Booth on his retirement after 31 years of public service at the Congressional Budget Office. Mark's expertise as a forecaster and modeler has made him an invaluable…

when we debated the Dodd-Frank bill in 2010, I concentrated most of my effort on talking about the third portion-- the third third of the bill; it is one of those several-hundred page bills again--but this was kind of hidden at the end…

I wish to submit to the Senate the budget scorekeeping report for February 2018. The report compares current-law levels of spending and revenues with the amounts the Senate agreed to in the budget resolution for fiscal year 2018, H. Con…

section 251 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, BBEDCA, establishes statutory limits on discretionary spending and allows for various adjustments to those limits, while sections 302 and 314(a) of the…

I am proud of all the hard work and leadership that went into passing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

We have a spending problem in America, and so I look forward to hearing from our witness which ways the administration believes we can use taxpayer dollars more efficiently.

One of my greatest concerns as a United States Senator is our country's national debt, a figure that has now eclipsed $20 trillion.