The Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Personalities versus Structure: the Fragmentation of the Senate Committee System

How positive this statement would have been had it been any chair’s statement when presenting a series of Senate committee reports on the goods-and-services tax. In fact, it was a statement by the Chair of the then Senate Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee, Senator James McClelland, on 15 October 1974. At that time, such unanimous reports constituted the norm for Senate committees—even ...

Testimony Before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate

It is an opportune moment for this discussion. Thanks in large part to improvements in health care, life expectancy has been extended at unprecedented rates, both in our country and around the world. The number of people over age 65 is growing especially rapidly in countries like the United States that experienced sharp increases in birth rates shortly after World War II, nearly 70 years ago. F...

to the Chairman , Committee on Finance , U . S . Senate

New York State Senate Insurance Committee New York State Senate Health Committee New York State Senate Codes Committee Public Hearing Medical Malpractice Testimony Outline of the Healthcare Association of New York State

The following are highlights of HANYS’ remarks. Since we are testifying together with the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA) and the Iroquois Healthcare Alliance (Iroquois), we do not intend to repeat the points made by our colleagues. HANYS wishes to make it eminently clear, however, that HANYS fully endorses and supports the hospital community’s proposals as described in GNYHA’s an...

Testimony of Michael Replogle Transportation Director, Environmental Defense Before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, United States Senate

Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee, I am Michael Replogle, and am pleased to testify today on behalf of Environmental Defense, a national organization with over 300,000 members nationwide, which I serve as Transportation Director. Our Living Cities program designs marketbased solutions to promote clean air, water and land in major metropolitan areas nationwide. Today I also represent the...