Likewise, in the Marketplace, any proposal that results in fewer people being covered, or in benefits being reduced, should be rejected.

I just do not want us to get to a place where people in America have to settle for something that no one else in the industrialized world has to settle for.

I worry a little bit, and whether we are trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act or we are trying to fix the Affordable Care Act, I think it is incumbent on all of us not to make matters worse for rural America in doing what we are doing.

So just to be clear on that, though, Senator Thune said, well, in our history the average growth rate we have seen is about 3.2 percent.

In 2011, due to the dysfunction in Congress, we almost failed to raise the debt ceiling here.

I would hope that you could take a pledge today that would say that nothing that you would advocate for or would pass or have the President-elect sign into law, would add one dollar to our deficit or our debt.

Do you support a budget that increases the debt by $10 trillion?

Will you commit today that any replacement plan for the Affordable Care Act will not in any way contribute to our deficit or our debt?

Will you commit as a member of the Tea Party that no replacement for this dreadful Obamacare that allegedly created this deficit and debt will add to the deficit and debt?

The idea that that should be a precedent for the Democrats, eight of whom are here tonight, to ask questions, even followups to questions that we've heard tonight, is really unfair and uncharacteristic.

I really wish we had a second round of questions, too.