You’re roadkill in the middle.
[L]et’s not kid ourselves. ... While we have worked to improve the present bill for Alaska, it is not good enough for the rest of our nation...
My hope is that the House is gonna look at this and recognize that we’re not there yet.
I don’t actually want the version of the bill I voted for to become law, and I hope that the House undoes some of the damage in the bill tha...
Kill it and it’s gone.
Do I like this bill? No. Because I tried to take care of Alaska’s interest.
I have an obligation to the people of the state of Alaska, and I live up to that every single day.
I don’t like that.
You can either say, ‘I don’t like it,’ and not try to help my state, or you can roll up your sleeves.
It’s offensive to claim that federal dollars being sent to a state are considered a bailout.
My hope is that the House is going to look at this and recognize that we’re not there yet.
My response is I have an obligation to the people of the state of Alaska. And I live up to that every single day.
That weighs very, very heavily, and so what I tried to do was to ensure that my colleagues understood what that means when you live in an ar...
I have made clear very early on that we cannot move forward with a bill that makes cuts to Medicaid.
We do not have a perfect bill, by any stretch of the imagination.
Did we make some changes in the SNAP provisions that will allow for a delay, that will allow for greater flexibility to the state? Absolutel...
Do I like this bill? No.
We do not have a perfect bill by any stretch of the imagination.
