"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 end of this week."
"The farmers, families, and rural communities in my State deserve to have experienced and impartial leaders who will always have their back."
"I hope we can come together and do something that actually does more than a trickle-down tax cut for the top 1 percent."
"To keep the tax incentives, they then turn around, the top five companies, and spend a lot of money on lobbying to do that."
"It is also important that we are critically analyzing subsidies that do not make any sense anymore."
"that means you are incentivizing a new advanced manufacturing facility in Michigan the same way you would be if it was in Mumbai"
"Those may have made sense 100 years ago when they were created; they make absolutely no sense now."
"I support tax reform that puts money in the pockets of hardworking people in Michigan and across the country."
"my concern is, as we are debating right now, various proposals we have seen would actually do away with manufacturing incentives"
"There are some significant issues with the dairy safety net that we need to fix."
"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."