Debbie Stabenow

We definitely need a different way to do this.

I think the whole question of what is happening with wildfires is incredibly serious.

I could also point to Senator Stabenow's Western Lake Erie Basin and talk in details not only about phosphorus...

Our farmers, ranchers, foresters are the original and best conservationists.

If I could just underscore that. When we talk about risk management in the last Farm Bill, we strengthened risk management tools, crop insurance being one, but conservation is also a risk management tool for farmers and ranchers today.

Those are huge numbers, the differences in that.

This is a very, very important part of the Farm Bill and frankly part of our policies for the country.

Both letters reject the President's budget proposal to eliminate the Regional Conservation Partnership Program and highlight the importance of this program.

I would echo your words that it is a pleasure to serve with you on this Committee and that we are actually getting things done and working together which is so very important for the people we represent.

I have always said that the Farm Bill is a jobs bill, and conservation and forestry is no exception.

The President told people in Michigan that on day one he would label China a currency manipulator and that has not happened yet.

We know, fundamentally, this is so important for our farmers and food safety and the food economy.

I authored that initiative with a then new Republican colleague, Roy Blunt, and we are now both in the Senate.

This is a highly disputed study that you have been talking about that compares two different kinds of systems, does not include the tax credits that have substantially brought down out-of-pocket costs for real people.

Well, just for the record, all those ads are written off, and we pay for them as taxpayers.

I do know that is what it does.

Is it appropriate to give pharmaceutical companies a $25-billion tax cut in the health-care reform bill when there is nothing to bring down the cost of prescription drugs in that bill?

If you have cystic fibrosis and need the latest drug to improve lung function, should you have to pay $300,000?

But should someone who learns they have Hepatitis C have to pay $80,000 to get the drug they need to be cured?

Should a family have to pay $700 for EpiPens for their child?

President Trump repeatedly stated he wanted to drastically bring down prescription drug prices through Medicare negotiation, saying pharmaceutical companies were getting away with murder.

Well, let us start by keeping our commitments.

Well, I can assure you, after meeting with the head of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan, they are going to file two rates when they file their rates: one if the administration keeps their commitments, and one if they do not.

I think, a very important basic assumption that you have made, and that is that the Affordable Care Act is falling apart.

The entire Rural Development Water and Sewer Program is eliminated in the President's budget