We have made a choice. We have made an economic choice and we have made an economic gamble.

Not Congress, not you, but the district court now requires a cost benefit analysis, which I support.

Somewhere around 8 out of 10 employees will see more money in their take-home pay. That is significant progress for folks who are living paycheck to paycheck.

The current fiscal environment that we live in is lurching from one CR [continuing resolution] to another.

We need your input here in Congress on budgeting and look forward to that.

Republicans right now are just cowards.

People are saying that Donald Trump is above the rule of law, and that simply is not the case.

The fact of the matter is if Richard Nixon was President and Paul Ryan was the speaker of the House, then he probably would nominate Richard Nixon for a Nobel Peace Prize.

I am so distraught not as a Democrat, not as a South Carolinian, but just as an American today because the Republican Party has let the tenets of our democracy just fall at the wayside.

I believe that it is a promise that the President has already started to keep.

we absolutely anticipate that the deepwater ports be part of the infrastructure bill.

we were fairly disappointed in the GDP numbers in the fourth quarter.

Graham-Cassidy goes to the very heart of that while providing importantly the funding necessary for States to do that.

Our budget assumes a DACA deal; it assumes an immigration agreement is reached.

We actually saw increases in economic growth, improvements in economic growth, before the tax bill was even actually fleshed out, let alone passed.

I think every State will benefit, and we will try to make it the least amount of pain as possible to the four States who get most of the money compared to the other States.

Do you agree that the State Department is really national security in another form, as General Mattis indicated?

I just cannot tell you how important it is that we set aside the sequestration cuts for the next 2 years and rebuild our military.