Joseph P. Kennedy III: “I think that the public interest determination should consider all economic factors and that is certainly one of them.”

This is an issue that is important to me, important to my constituents across Massachusetts...

In other parlance, it is countercyclical, right? When you have an economic downturn, Medicaid enrollment increases, right?

This is, in all likelihood, my last committee hearing as well. It has been an extraordinary honor and pleasure and privilege for me to join all of you on the best committee in Congress.

Pollution is a subsidy, right? It is a cost to society that those that generate it don't bear.