"I agree with many of the comments my colleagues have made about how interesting this hearing has been, and while I joked a little bit about not restoring trust through this hearing, I think I did not ..."
"if it is on shaky ground it is because Republicans both in Congress and across the country where they have the authority are planting dynamite in the ground under the system."
"the reason he did that was not because of any reason that made sense either economically or in terms of providing service for our citizens, but because he has an ideological opposition to Kynect and p..."
"So what he is doing is setting up for you to reject the proposal and then he is going to dismantle Medicaid expansion in Kentucky, take insurance away from 400,000 of our citizens, jeopardize many pro..."
"the Republicans in Congress again hold hearings like this, vote time and time again, more than 60 times to repeal the ACA, and have never proposed an alternative that is anything but going back to whe..."
"And the reason that they have not proposed a viable alternative to the ACA other than going back to the pre-ACA situation, I am convinced, is because the only other alternative is single payer."
"I am one who is willing to sign on right now to Mr. Shimkus' idea of rewriting the Telecommunications Act."
"I think it is negligent that we don't consider doing that."
"It just seems to me such a cold-hearted approach to saying that these kids... have no alternatives for them that are reasonable."
"Thanks to all of you for being here today and for doing what you are doing to ensure that there is access to broadband throughout our country."
"Come November, it is estimated by some that there will have then spent somewhere in the neighborhood of $10 billion on political advertising in this cycle."
"I was astonished that the chairman of the Budget Committee, for the first time in 40 years, did not allow the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to come to the Hill and present the admini..."