U.S. State Attorneys General

I look forward to working together in the weeks and months ahead. I suspect we will continue to have our differences, but there is no doubt we share the same goal of helping to ensure every child is prepared to succeed in life.

We would really want to work with you as World War II Filipino veterans are dying on a daily basis.

I would want to work with you to make sure that these projects are moving along.

I really hope that you will re-introduce that, and I will do everything possible to help support that bill.

I would like you to reiterate, for the record, that you believe that this is a very good thing.

I know that you are aware of the bill that Senator Joni Ernst and I introduced.

I rise today in opposition to the nomination of Mike Pompeo to serve as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Representative Pompeo has been wrong on many critical intelligence issues during his 6 years in Congress. He will not…

There has been a lack of parity as to the treatment and the access to care for the mental health side

I think that if he is chosen, he will decimate Medicare and Medicaid as we know it.

How do you all think that is supposed to happen? How is that supposed to be implemented with Secretary Price at the helm?

These seniors are going to find out that with the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, they will end up paying more for drugs.

I think that finally, with the potential demise or repeal of the Affordable Care Act and voucherizing of Medicare and the huge cuts to Medicaid, the defunding of Planned Parenthood, it is finally, I think, sinking into our country what…

I will join my colleagues in fighting tooth and nail against the voucherizing of Medicare and the privatizing of these kinds of programs that really are the lifelines for millions of people in our community.

Don't touch Medicare but don't pass the Affordable Care Act.

I was surprised, pleasantly surprised by your response to that question.

When I talk with my small businesses and they say that, it is easy enough to say we are in an overregulated environment, but I always ask them, 'What specific regulation is it that is causing you trouble?'

I think that you have an understanding of the special challenges that are faced by women entrepreneurs, having been one yourself, and minority-owned businesses and veterans.

I think we're going to see more of this. I think we've just got to be very clear that we're on a call. We're going to correct the record and tell the truth to the American people. There's no record of millions of people who are not…

I think this is one of the interesting unintended consequences of the ACA, is the ingenuity that it sparked in trying to get around the obstacles.

It was built on lies. If you wanted your plan, you could keep it. If you wanted your doctor, you could keep it; all that nonsense.

I think this is one of the impacts of the Affordable Care Act that we have to find better solutions to allow employers to continue to provide that kind of service to their employees that they think is very, very important.

So, clearly, what we have is not working. I think there are better solutions and I am looking forward to working with the college to achieve that.

People have seen extraordinary increases. People who had health insurance before have seen extraordinary increases in the cost of their premiums, 25 percent average increase in premiums across the country.

The consent decrees provide a kind of bridge of accountability between police departments and the community that are enforceable.