| Climate Change |
May 16, 2013 |
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Sheldon Whitehouse, D-RI
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"The problem: Most of this support is latent and unorganized. None of these groups feel they can carry this battle on their own; yet if they choose to unite, create an allied command, assemble these various divisions and join in on a strategy that deploys them all effectively into action, that latent strength becomes potent strength, and that is a game changer."
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| Water Resources Development Act Of 2013 |
May 8, 2013 |
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Sheldon Whitehouse, D-RI
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"I can tell two stories about my home State of Rhode Island that are very current. In Rhode Island, the biggest storm we have seen, worse even than Superstorm Sandy in recent decades, was the famous hurricane of 1938, which did immense damage along our shoreline at a time when our shoreline was far less developed than it is now. Between the 1930s, when that hurricane took place, and now, the sea level at the Newport tide gauge in Newport, RI, has actually climbed 10 inches. So when the next hurricane of 1938 comes—or perhaps even a bigger one, as our current experience of storms would seem to suggest is possible—it will be driving a higher ocean against the shore and probably not just 10 inches higher, because a storm surge will stack that 10-inch increase as it crashes against our Rhode Island shores, and that can be a game changer."
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| We Need To Know Where We Come From To Know Where We Are Going |
April 26, 2013 |
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Louie Gohmert, R-TX
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"I wondered if, perhaps, President Obama were going to be right. Perhaps he will be right. Maybe it will help America with countries that have shown hatred for this country. President Obama said it was going to basically be a game-changer that Muslim countries would have far more respect for us since we had a President, as President Obama said, who grew up in a Muslim country, with admiration for the practices and teachings of Muslims, a President who loved the call for prayer, who loved hearing that."
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| Improved Health Care At Lower Cost Act Of 2013 |
April 11, 2013 |
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Jim McDermott, D-WA
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"In sum, the Act strikes the right balance between the need for innovation in promoting cost savings efforts and the need to guard against waste, fraud, and abuse. CMS and OIG can structure the requirements that hospital-physician arrangements must meet in a way that ensures federal health care programs will be protected from fraud, waste, and abuse. Federal regulators have been overseeing these arrangements for nearly a decade—either through demonstration authority or through the advisory opinion process—I am confident that this legislation holds genuine promise for being a “game changer” in getting us towards the goal of better care at a lower cost without compromising access to quality health care services."
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| Recognizing Dr. Hannah Gay |
March 12, 2013 |
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Thad Cochran, R-MS
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"News of Dr. Gay’s work and this baby’s apparent cure has been celebrated around the world. This development opens a significant door to advance research and treatment for HIV and AIDS, the acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Millions of children around the globe have been infected at or during birth, and it is my hope that the spread of HIV among newborns will begin to slow and eventually stop with what has taken place in Mississippi what one doctor at Johns Hopkins University Medical School called a “game-changer.”"
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