Michael Bennet

I believe the government must meet all of its outstanding obligations, and for this reason I understand that Congress has always acted to raise the debt limit when necessary.

I appreciate Secretary Mnuchin's expressions that the debt limit needs to be raised without delay and without unrelated policy conditions.

In my State, 50 percent of the people are children. So I hear people, politicians talk about, go to work.

I just hope--Mr. Chairman, I hope the people who voted for this person are listening to these answers.

Will you tell the American people today that your administration will not accept a tax reform bill from the Congress that cuts taxes on average for high-income taxpayers?

We are going to cut domestic discretionary spending by 40 percent.

The President's priority is to grow the military spending and offset that with less domestic spending.

The difference between the 18 percent of GDP that we are collecting in revenue and the more than 21 percent of GDP that we are spending in this government, all the promises that have been made to the tea party about balancing the budget…

You are presenting a budget that cuts more taxes.

One way to support farming and ranching communities in Colorado, in this difficult economy, is to make sure we have markets for our products.

I was part of the Gang of Eight that wrote the immigration bill here in the Senate, which got 68 votes.

I view that as an attack on rural Colorado and on rural America.

What do you think we should keep in mind, to anybody on the panel, as we continue to work on our proposal and other proposals here to better coordinate care for the sickest and highest-cost patients?

The CHRONIC Care Act that we are discussing today is taking important steps to increase care coordination for those who have multiple chronic conditions.

Have you been able to measure cost savings in your own operation as a result?

If we were to go further and make this a national program, would programs at UPMC and those in my home State of Colorado, do you think, be able to serve even more chronically ill patients with higher quality and better, cost-effective care?

The Independence at Home Act would help improve care for patients while they are in the comfort of their own home. It would also reduce costs.

A lot of good work has been done there, and I think some thoughtful solutions about how to improve care for the sickest Medicare enrollees are coming to the fore now.

I am here today to speak on a different topic, but before the Senator from Minnesota leaves, I want to thank him for his statement and for his observations, which are dead-on about the need now more than ever to have an independent special…

Before I begin my remarks, I just want to say, while the Senator from Arizona is still here, what a privilege it is to hear somebody come to this floor and actually speak about facts as they actually are--economic facts, facts related to…

It looks like some Republican members of Congress and the administration are locked in competition to see who can propose the biggest tax cut for the wealthy.

You'd think that an administration that talks about running government like a business would want to invest in cybersecurity.

When the public got its first glimpse of the Trump budget, the IRS didn't get the investment Secretary Mnuchin talked about.

Apparently that's not going to happen in 2017. It looks like this President will choose to keep hiding his returns.

Congress slashed the IRS budget by 16 percent in real terms from 2010 to 2016 with corresponding reductions in its workforce.