Mike Braun

I have dropped a bill called the Fair Care Act, which is the most comprehensive approach to what you could do here in the Federal Government to make it consumer driven, embrace transparency, embrace competition.

I have always felt an inherent responsibility to do things right, keep your employees safe, that that is part and parcel of growing an enterprise.

It is getting squeezed on both sides of the equation. You have got more concentration, fewer options on selling what you produce, and fewer options to control your input costs along the journey as well.

I have been the loudest voice trying to reform health care.

There should not be barriers to entry. You should have full transparency.

We need to make sure that we are not misguiding, that we are not stigmatizing, and that we give the full range of options.

I would hope that that uniformity never comes from here and that it is within the domicile and prerogative of the State.

I am a big believer that you have got to always defer to that local input.

The most significant threat to our country, in his mind, is not the red menace, but the red ink.

I think defense is the most important thing we do here in the Federal Government.

Is it worth it to send my kid into a system that 50 percent of the kids that go there don't pursue it?

I think it is silly to pour more resources in anything that is not delivering outcomes that look like they are at least headed in the right direction.

It is not about spending more money, it is really more about finding how we change the system.

We need better skills that are being delivered out of high school.

I think it'd be good to at least--I think that would symbolize the fact that we're getting something that's gone through some normal process and it's bipartisan and it wouldn't preclude doing the broader package that you're talking about.

Would it make sense to maybe phase it in, try it, maybe not go full scale across the country, but owning a trucking company myself before I got here, it is the biggest issue we contend with along with the fact that that pathway in life…

I think it'd be good to at least--I think that would symbolize the fact that we're getting something that's gone through some normal process and it's bipartisan.

We got a bill through committee unanimously to reauthorize and protect the Highway Trust Fund

Would it make sense to maybe phase it in, try it, maybe not go full scale across the country, but owning a trucking company myself before I got here, it is the biggest issue we contend with along with the fact that that pathway in life…

I am real interested, in general, to try to get the FDA to maintain all of its integrity and standards but pick up the pace a bit.

So, I think then, it begs the question of the main stakeholder in all of this, to me, is the patient.

I would point out that that does not work anywhere else--in any State government, it does not work in any entity that has got the rigor of competition in the private sector, and it is a very poor example of what we do at a place that so…

Something has been conspicuously absent from the discussion of raising revenues, and that would be the qualified tax deduction for small businesses.

So as a Main Street entrepreneur, I will tell you--and I have been doing it 37 years prior to becoming a Senator--that was clearly the biggest driver when you look at corporate income taxes going from 35 to 21, I believe that that…

Do you think that is healthy public policy to spend in that fashion when we are really asking future generations to pay for it?