In Massachusetts, we have been working hard to keep health care costs low by focusing on both sides of the equation: on nutrition and near-universal health care coverage.

These programs all work together to help keep people healthy, and... cuts or eliminations to any of these programs will really have effects that impact other areas.

I think this is just a powerfully important point, and I commend you and Senator Casey for pulling this together.

Madam President, from day one, this administration, President Trump, and congressional Republicans have attacked rules that protect working families. Just 1 hour after taking the oath of office, President Trump indefinitely suspended a…

So any effort to reform our housing finance system must address this crisis.

Do you think that a primary goal of housing finance reform should be to meaningfully increase access to affordable housing?

If it does not address this crisis, then it does not solve the problem in front of us and, in my view, is not worth doing at that point.

But I cannot be for reform if it does not address the affordable housing crisis in this country.

I am all for ending Government conservatorship, and I am certainly all for ending the old system where the private investors pocket all the profits while the taxpayers take all the risks.

A big reason that the Government created Fannie and Freddie to begin with was to promote access to affordable home ownership.

Mr. President, I am deeply relieved that the majority leader has delayed a vote on the Republican's cruel bill to rip up healthcare for 22 million people. People in Massachusetts and across this country spoke out against this terrible…