"I appreciate the focus on non-tariff trade barriers."
"I think it is stark when we look at, under Medicare alone, in addition to costs going down, as you have said, we have seniors with about $1,200 more back in their pocket because we closed the gap in M..."
"The Affordable Care Act--7.5 million people being able to get health care for themselves and their children, many for the first time--the Ryan budget repeals that and basically takes that back to zero..."
"the farm bill is a jobs bill, and that is why I am so proud of the work that we all did together in developing a robust energy title."
"The State of Michigan now is one of the highest in the country at cutting higher education, over 32 percent of the funding to universities and community colleges."
"Fortunately for me, in the 1970s, we did a whole lot more on scholarships. I would not have gone to college."
"I do not hear anywhere from any business or anybody that I work with right now that we need less education for folks."
"We just wrote a 5-year farm bill, and the very first thing we had to do was use the permanent Livestock Disaster Assistance Program because of the droughts all over the country."
"If 97 percent of the climate scientists surveyed in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences agreed that climate change is real, probably real."
"I'm not suggesting that we should cap or end exports. What I am advocating for is a thoughtful, balanced approach."
"I do think it's important that we move forward in a thoughtful way."
"Ultimately, I think, in a broad economic picture, we do not have an economy, and we do not have a middle class, unless we make things and grow things."