Sander Levin

Peace and nonproliferation should always be the top priority for the United States.

The Saudis do not have a God given right to have nuclear power with U.S. cooperation and we better make sure that Saudi Arabia does not obtain nuclear weapons.

Restricting travel, restricting interaction, keeping Americans from going to Cuba, is that helpful for the human rights?

As we watch the Russian occupation in Crimea and aggression against eastern Ukraine, we are reminded that this horrific human tragedy was designed by Stalin to crackdown on Ukrainian resistance to Soviet rule.

I support this measure that highlights this important area of international cooperation with one of America's closest friends and allies.

I think genocide is occurring. There's been some hesitation to say that is recent with the State Department to report where they spelled it out so clearly as was spelled out in the U.N. report.

Those of you who support expanded trade need to help focus on the problems we have in making agreements real.

I think, unless practice is showing that changes are made before we vote both in laws and practices, that essentially it will be difficult and should be difficult to pass NAFTA.

We had a situation, 50 million people in this country without any healthcare coverage.

Essentially what we have heard is the campaign message of the Republican party against ACA.

I must confess I find the discussion we just heard appalling, that we are paying people not to work...

Slashing support for higher education, including Pell grants, as required under the Republican budget, will not help people climb the economic ladder, it will rip that ladder away.

Cutting State funding for job training and placement will not help workers get good jobs, it will make it harder for them to stay competitive.

Raising taxes on one and a half million working families by eliminating their refundable tax credit, as marked up by the Committee, will not lift families up, it will push them down.

Eliminating food assistance for 13 million Americans, as suggested by the latest Republican budget, will not reduce poverty and hardship, it will increase it.

Our Republican colleagues seem to mistake cutting poverty programs with cutting poverty.

Jeopardizing healthcare coverage for over 20 million Americans by constantly attempting to repeal health reform will not help struggling families, it will hurt them.

Cutting childcare and other services funded by the Social Services Block Grant, which Republicans voted earlier this year to eliminate, will not increase opportunity, it will deny it for up to 30 million Americans who now depend on the…

Health care costs are growing at the slowest rate in more than 50 years.

This would disrupt the employer-based health insurance system that the 155 million working Americans and their families rely on for coverage.

That is a dangerous prospect on its own.

Yet despite these gains, Republicans continue to try to cook up ways to destroy the law.

Nearly 130 million Americans no longer have to worry about being denied coverage or charged higher premiums because of preexisting conditions.

Millions of young adults have been able to stay on their parents' plans until age 26.