We can fix the individual market without gutting Medicaid and taking away individual coverage for people.

No, we just repurpose it into other areas.

Under this bill, insurers can end coverage of mental health and substance abuse services just like any other essential health benefit.

I wish we were having a markup on the Children's Health Insurance Program, which you and our ranking member and myself and others have introduced, a bipartisan bill that is very important, 9 million children, and we will see CHIP ending at…

the truth of the matter is, when we cut down the number of people walking into emergency rooms who do not have insurance... the State of Michigan is saving money.

We have a very important effort that is going on right now in the HELP Committee, a bipartisan effort with Senator Lamar Alexander, Senator Patty Murray.

I was proud to author that provision in the bill in this committee.

Now, I have been using numbers that were not $1 trillion, but now it is $1 trillion in coverage cuts to seniors in nursing homes and children and families.

I support tax reform that puts money in the pockets of hardworking people in Michigan and across the country.

that means you are incentivizing a new advanced manufacturing facility in Michigan the same way you would be if it was in Mumbai

It is also important that we are critically analyzing subsidies that do not make any sense anymore.

The farmers, families, and rural communities in my State deserve to have experienced and impartial leaders who will always have their back.

To keep the tax incentives, they then turn around, the top five companies, and spend a lot of money on lobbying to do that.

USDA must be a forceful advocate for our farmers and ranchers.

We need strong leaders who understand the vital role USDA plays in the lives of every American.

my concern is, as we are debating right now, various proposals we have seen would actually do away with manufacturing incentives

I want to reiterate again that I think the entire agriculture and farm and food community understands what we need to do to move forward on the budget, and I share that as well.

Those may have made sense 100 years ago when they were created; they make absolutely no sense now.

I hope we can come together and do something that actually does more than a trickle-down tax cut for the top 1 percent.

There are some significant issues with the dairy safety net that we need to fix.

We are roaring back in Detroit with hundreds of new restaurants being opened, as well as food trucks.

this is about State reporting and what they are doing. This is not about individual people committing fraud.

These destructive storms underscore the critical need for disaster assistance for both our farmers and our families.

I am hopeful that that will be the path and that we will focus on those things and not trickle-down economics that just has not worked.

President Trump's plan at this point gives the top 1 percent a tax cut, each person, of over $270,000 a year.