Thank you for your comments. Always thoughtful, always thoughtful.

Thank you for your passion, and I would ask that we spend the rest of this day dealing with this.

Given how important this obviously is, my only regret is that we didn't have an opportunity to talk about it 24 hours ago.

Given how important this obviously is, my only regret is that we didn't have an opportunity to talk about it 24 hours ago.

I want to thank our members for being here today.

You and our colleagues have heard me invoke in this room more times than I can count the Golden Rule: Treat other people the way I want to be treated.

Thank you for your comments. Always thoughtful, always thoughtful.

If I had known--as you know, the breadth of the issues that we cover in this Committee are enormous. It is impossible for any of us to fully master each of them.

Three times in the 11 years I have been here, we passed meaningful legislation or taken meaningful action on the floor of the Senate by one vote.

We are delighted to be able to move the legislation today.

Well, there is a good compromise out there, and I think if we are smart and don't give up today, we will find it.

Yes, the ability not to have to cram it into 6 weeks, but to have it for a year.

I think we will start seeing statistics and I would suspect the statistics because of who Medicaid covers, are not just likely to be a reduction in maternal mortality, but it should start to eat away at some of the disparities that we are…

I would say there is a lesson here for both of us, and one of those is to make clear I am always ready to take your calls, your meeting, whatever you want and engage.

Thank you for your passion, and I would ask that we spend the rest of this day dealing with this.

I hope is that the issues we just discussed... we can keep at it today and see if we can't find a way to yes.

I want to thank our members for being here today.

Well, there is a good compromise out there, and I think if we are smart and don't give up today, we will find it.