"The issue is not whether we reduce the deficit, but how we do so. And that conversation must include a discussion about revenues."
"The reality exists that an aging population means more people will rely on Medicare and millions of the uninsured will now have access to healthcare through Medicaid because of the Affordable Care Act..."
"The ACA contains significant premium subsidies and responsibility requirements for individuals and employers."
"My colleague asked if we know of any public health care system that improved outcomes and controlled costs, and I will certainly give you one, and that is Medicare."
"Requiring that insurance companies provide coverage to all who apply represents a big change to these companies' business models, isn't that correct?"
"I appreciate that because it gets frustrating after a time whether it is communications or it is power or whatever."
"the ACA provides States with 250 million in health insurance premium review grants over 5 years."
"The Republican budget repeals coverage provisions of the ACA and will leave 27 million additional Americans uninsured."
"Consumers have already received over $1 billion in rebates from insurance companies that failed to meet this important new standard."
"the ACA is helping to create millions of jobs."
"I get numerous constituent letters concerning the lack of prosecution of wrongdoers."
"I certainly hope that the ideological opposition to the entity which received a majority vote in its creation by the Congress of the United States does not continue to be the opposition to someone who..."
"If that is a new standard that a majority will can now be subverted by stopping a nominee in order to subvert the agency, then that is a dangerous slope."
"Will you work to follow through on this, if confirmed, and make sure that we get to the rule that is called for under the law?"
"I think American leadership on this issue is absolutely essential."
"Given this growing set of circumstances, I believe the committee needs to take a close look at current United States policy toward North Korea."
"This new Security Council resolution, based on a United States-China draft, includes tough new sanctions intended to impede North Korea's ability to develop further its illicit nuclear and ballistic m..."
"It is up to North Korea to understand that it has another path that it can take."
