the ACA has been a lifeline for millions during the pandemic, but its future hangs in the balance because of this Republican effort to repeal it.

I am very concerned that the Supreme Court holds the future of healthcare for millions of Americans in its hands.

President Trump continues to support the Republican lawsuit that is now before the Supreme Court to strike down the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA) in the middle of a pandemic that has claimed the lives of more than 200,000 Americans.

The Administration also refuses to invest in outreach and enrollment efforts to make Americans aware of their coverage options.

Madam President, our Nation has suffered a historic loss in the passing of legal giant Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and I fear the rush to replace her with just 44 days left before the next Presidential election will have grave…

This is the most important election of our lifetime. But now it's gone to a whole different level and stratosphere of importance for an election.

Let the people speak is what she wanted, and I think that's what the majority of the American people want.

This is exactly what the Russians want to have happen to our democracy, is for demagogues like him to further delegitimize the institutions that are important, and the process of elections be safe, fair elections.

Madam President, I rise at a time of great grief in our country. We have seen 200,000 fellow Americans perish due to COVID. In addition to that, we have seen heroes in our Nation fall during this period as well. Still, we have a heavy…

In fact, we preserve a host of options to undo any damage, even if he's successful in putting this person on the Supreme Court.

Well, this is a person that has so attacked our democracy that he already said that he loses the election, it is therefore rigged. So, we know, he's telegraphing to us that he's going to try to delegitimize any election outcome unless he…

What we do know is he's going to find a judge that will do his bidding on issues of a woman's right to control her own body, Roe v. Wade is in jeopardy with this pick, as well as the ACA, which he said, let it fall was his desire…

Well, right now, Democratic senators (AUDIO GAP) speaking about persuasively in my opinion passionately (AUDIO GAP) the fact that we shouldn't move forward. There are six senators that still have not told us which way they're going to go.

I need to stay in the program right now, because I have 45 mouths to feed here.

I would hope that, if we have this hearing again, we will invite at least one firm that has graduated from the program.

I could not survive if I graduated out of the DBE program right now.

Merrick Garland should have been given a vote, and nobody talked back then about oh, well, the President was of a different party and that is why the Rule exist.

there is greater risk in not doing so.