"This is all good news and stands in stark contrast to the claims we've been hearing from the other side for three years... Now is not the time to reverse course."
"Expanding Medicaid is expected to provide a cumulative economic boost of $15.6 billion through new health spending."
"I think we should all challenge ourselves across, you know, the federal government, across agencies."
"I want to thank you and my colleagues. I wasn't here; I was at another meeting... our thoughts obviously go out to all of the victims there."
"Would it not be fair to say by the same logic because of the sequester, because of the Budget Control Act, the roughly $2 trillion worth of cuts that we have enacted over the last three years, that th..."
"As we work to foster a growing economy, we must make sure Washington does not block the road to growth and prosperity."
"My primary concern just with SKILLS Act is the idea of block granting these funds to the state."
"I would disagree with the characterization, Mr. Gustafson, that this is, you want a demand-driven rather than supply-driven because I would take the position that we are here to serve the citizens of ..."
"we, at least we Democrats, then Ben Chandler and I, and Baron Hill from Indiana, and others, worked with Representative Boucher of Virginia to kind of construct a methodology that would have minimal i..."
"the state of the law is that not only does EPA have the authority to regulate carbon emissions, it has the requirement to regulate carbon emissions, isn't that correct?"
"this bill basically does is just eliminate one of the tools that you might have to regulate carbon emissions to meet the requirement that you have under the law?"