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This bill has additional problems.

The Medicaid program has been an important health care safety net for nearly 60 years that has helped people in difficult financial circumstances, including people with disabilities, children, seniors, and low-income families.

My difficulties with the bill go far beyond what they could resolve.

If it was important enough to tweet it, it would seem to me it was important enough to notify this committee.

There are going to be a gazillion more amendments tonight.

There's some very good changes that have been made in the latest version, but I want to see further changes.

Generally, I give deference to the majority leader’s power to bring bills to the Senate floor.

I want changes to the bill made through the amendment process or I might vote against it in the end.

If the bill is not further changed, I would be leaning against the bill.

That procedural motion does not predict my vote on final passage. I will be filing a number of amendments.

I have proclaimed today as Cooper Flagg Day

I totally disagree that the parliamentarian should be fired.

These are not only the right thing to do for humanitarian reasons, but they are incredible instruments of soft power.

I don’t think that solves the entire problem.

Pocket rescissions are illegal, in my judgment, and contradict the will of Congress and the constitutional authority of Congress to appropriate funds.

The nation sorely needs a Republican victory. But I don’t want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the four horsemen of calumny—fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear.

Sometimes yes and sometimes no.

I will not support a cut in PEPFAR, which is a program that has saved literally millions of lives and has been extremely effective and well-run.