"What we're doing … is working on fraud, waste and abuse, and everyone in Louisiana and around the country understands that that's a responsibility of Congress."
"It's the Senate and the House Republicans together that will deliver this ball over the goal line, so to speak."
"We are not cutting Medicaid."
"We have not cut Medicaid, and we have not cut SNAP."
"We bothered to stick it in because that's our responsibility in Congress."
"That's about the right estimate. But at the same time, we have historic savings for the American people."
"This is not some onerous thing, this is common sense."
"If you are able to work and you refuse to do so, you are defrauding the system."
"When the American people understand what we are doing here, they applaud it."
"This is a big thing, it's an historic thing, once in a generation legislation."
"I think, arguably, it's the most consequential legislation that Congress will pass in many generations, and it's a long time coming."