So, my heart lies in Washington DC.

Hopefully we’re voting on this by tomorrow or Thursday at latest.

It is really a dire situation. We’re on a time clock that’s been really set on us, so we have a lot of pressure.

The Department of Homeland Security has authorities that have never been utilized before, and I’m going to need some good minds on how to use those authorities.

I’m surrounded by bureaucrats

These little flourishes that were added, like no tax on tips, are issues that are designed to cover the horrible job that they’re doing.

We're on a time clock that's been really set on us, so we have a lot of pressure—and then also given the fact that there's 435 members of Congress and it's hard for us to get to an agreement on anything.

how to fire people that don’t like us

the benefits for the middle class in the bill would be very little compared to the cost of this bill.

Well, I think the Senate accomplished a near-impossible task. They took an ugly bill and they made it even uglier.

In this bill, you provide a $2 billion tax break for gun silencers, but you cut SNAP benefits for vulnerable families, which, by the way, is on average $2 per person, per meal.

I wouldn't mind if my daughter had been in the room with us.

I feel like now, more than ever, we have to fight the catastrophe that is the Trump presidency.

So this whole thing is—I don’t know what to call it—it’s a shit show. And I’m sorry for saying that.

We have members across the conference who have concerns about various provisions of the bill.

Republicans are in shambles because they know the bill is so unpopular.

Trump’s Republican Party does not allow for independent thought. The Republican Party today is a cult. Either you do as Trump wants, or you’re out. Pathetic.

I don’t see how we pass this by Friday.