Diana DeGette: “Thank you very much, and thank you for all of your efforts and your agency's efforts.”

I want to congratulate Melat Kiros for her victory last night, and I want to wish her all the best in her future.

If you’re going to be doing quality health care legislation, you should be able to do it in a bipartisan way.

The government should never have the right to use health insurance coverage as a targeted weapon, should never deliberately strip certain people of the freedom to make their own medical decisions.

If I could pass Medicare-for-All unilaterally in the minority, I would do it, because I’m an original co-sponsor of that bill. But the frustration people are feeling is with the whole system.