I need to repeat that. Because of their concern for those 315,000, out of 307 million Americans, who earn over $1 million a year, the Republicans, to a person, stopped a tax cut for 99.9 percent of the American people. I cannot tell my…

The letter hits on a key point. If we are serious about deficit reduction, then don't come to the floor and fight for the wealthiest Americans, many of whom say they are doing fine. If we are going to do it, tell us how you are going to…

Tracie from Fresno: In July last year I lost my job. I am a single parent of two children. At first I made cuts by not eating out or spending money on things we didn't really need. Then I had to give up my car versus being homeless. Now we…

I just want the Senator to understand this extension is not for anything beyond 99 weeks. Believe me. It is up to 99 weeks. We do not have any extension beyond 99 weeks.

the American people deserve to know why we are not legislating. We are all here, and we are not passing any bills, bills that are important to the American people; for example, a bill to keep the government operating. We are getting to the…

Absolutely, I would not agree to that modification. It goes to the very point I was making. They want to give tax breaks to millionaires and not pay for it, but they are forcing cuts in other jobs programs here. It would only make a worse…

When you buy a policy that has a $20,000 cap, and it turns out that's divided into different categories, to me that's a sham.

To me, what's going on out there, these are sham policies. They're shams.

We need to make sure that the Secretary of HHS is shining a bright light on these shams and scams.

I am somebody from a state of 38 million people, but it's OK.

I can't legislate morality, but I'm just saying to you, the fact that, essentially, you pick up 70 or 80 percent for your higher-income workers, and 10 to 20 percent for your lowest workers, I think you ought to take a look at that.

the days of these mini-med plans are numbered.

we passed that bill, so we could insure 32 million uninsured Americans, which would reduce the need for uncompensated care, which would allow premiums for other people to go down.

What percentage do you pay?

I'm going to start with Aetna, and I'm going to take a look at the way this policy was sold to you.

I'm actually wondering if the 10-percent factor--10 percent of the time that the brakes don't work--doesn't weigh heavily on McDonald's.

I think it would be really important.

it's not 2014 yet. All of this will disappear then.

I would have voted a very strong no because I believe that authority should remain with the elected representatives and not go to bureaucrats.

I oppose the Coburn amendment to impose a 3-year moratorium on spending for local priorities, or ``earmarks.'' Those who support this amendment claim that it will help reduce the deficit and put us on the path to fiscal responsibility…

What do you pick up for your employees, on average?

And if you like your insurance plan, you will keep it. No one will be able to take that away from you. It hasn't happened yet. It won't happen in the future.

I think the more basic question is, like, would a car that the brakes only worked 90 percent of the time, but didn't work 10 percent of the time, would that get approved?

the new healthcare reform law--not loved by all, but by this person--is slowly putting an end to health plans that place caps on essential health services.

one of the reasons we acted on health reform is that, if you look at all the bankruptcies, more than 60 percent of them were related to a healthcare crisis.