But you get my point. They are saying to me, 'The President said he would not cut Medicaid.'

Under Donald Trump, nobody is going to lose coverage. The CBO yesterday said 23 million people are going to lose coverage.

What we should pass is something that should meet those three promises that the President made: nobody loses coverage, nobody pays more, and nobody gets kicked around because they have a preexisting condition?

The President said, 'I will not cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid,' and I think you were smart not to put the Medicaid line in this because I do not think it keeps the President's promise to not cut Medicaid.

Well, how about if they say this to me, they say, well, dollars are some of it, and I see that there is a Medicaid cut that is somewhere between $800 billion and $1.4 trillion, and I see that there is a tax cut that is $992 billion.

Should this body try to keep President Trump's promises, a health care system where nobody loses coverage, nobody pays more, and nobody with a preexisting condition has to revert back to a position where they are going to get kicked around?

The thought of a shutdown just scares them to death.

The way I described to my constituents the difference between an appropriations bill and a continuing resolution is I say one is like driving looking through the windshield looking forward, an appropriations bill, projecting forward; and a…

I am kind of a certainty freak because I was a mayor and Governor, and I always felt like if I could be certain everybody would at least know what to adjust to, it is hard to adjust to an asterisk or a question mark.

Do you think there is any such thing as a good shutdown of the United States Government?

I actually think there are some really profitable areas of working together between Democrats and Republicans, between Congress and the White House on budget reform issues.

I have a general concern about the size of the national debt and how it has grown from $10 trillion to $20 trillion.

Madam President, I rise to speak concerning the nomination by President Trump of Rex Tillerson to be Secretary of State. I believe I am going to be speaking a little bit this afternoon and possibly later. This will just be part of my…

First and foremost, we need to ensure that consumers have quality coverage options as this market continues to face challenges and additional market uncertainty will likely exacerbate these challenges.

I hope we can all agree, stakeholders I hope we can all agree that a repeal without a replacement would be an emergency or worse.

none of us believe any law is perfect. Certainly not the ACA, and we would love to work on improvements.

The letter that you sent last night in response to ours was a positive one, encouraging us to work together.

I actually think hearings like this, and we can use more of them, will be more likely to make improvements if we spend more time listening to stakeholders than listening to each other.