Mike Braun

I always believed in covering preexisting conditions with no caps on coverage, but my main interest was reducing healthcare costs.

We need more transparency, we need more innovation, we need more consumerism, but the fourth leg of that stool is better nutrition.

What healthcare was as a percentage of our GDP? Seven percent. It has nearly tripled in the 50 years we have been having the discussion.

Until no American goes to sleep hungry or is unsure from where his or her next meal will come from, we have not successfully completed the task.

Any discussion about the state of nutrition in America today must include a discussion about the quality.

My concern would be with the biggest player out there, rather than us, which is China.

It is interesting because China, just a few decades ago, was a developing country. Now they want to still maintain that status.

You deserve respect. Bring the COVID here.

Everything I see--you can call it Build Back Better--it looks like it is building back government better.

Indiana has led the Nation in school choice. And it is something that coming through the pandemic, I think it is clear that parents, again, ought to be the drivers of the equation.

Should the money follow the student, or should it follow the school?

I learned so much. And workforce was the No. 1 issue, dwarfing even rural broadband and affordable housing.

I must tell you, I think that to get the proper input from employers across the Country that we need to be careful there so that we get it right.

This topic is, maybe along with agriculture, one of the most bipartisan discussions I have seen here in the Senate.

To honor the heroism of fallen Corporal Humberto Sanchez, I went to pay my solemn respects on September 13 and 14, 2021, and was not present for votes. Corporal Sanchez was killed in the attack on Kabul airport helping Americans and allies…

It's like we're growing a fraud business here at the federal government.

It looks like we`re growing a fraud business, you know, here at the federal government.

If I am confirmed, I will make that a priority to find out what those research groups, to making sure we are addressing those concerns.

It is the most challenging component, not only when you are looking at climate, to make sure you have healthy, growing forests to sequester more CO2.

I think it is amazing how the private sector--I remember early on CDC, FDA kind of maybe arguing about who was going to control the dynamic.

Whatever we do for workers' rights... don't kill the golden goose that has made jobs for union workers possible is a small business.

I am for unions because you need them in places where you are up against a monolith of big business.

If you don't have small businesses that are healthy, you are not going to have big businesses.

I am a strong believer in First Amendment protections, and we have obviously seen coming from the business world as well, the tech industry carries so much clout.

A quick response to that before I ask unanimous consent on the next item is that that is an argument I hear so often, that the city that supports some of the toughest State gun laws and local laws that ends up having the statistics that no…