Amy Klobuchar: “I thank my colleagues--both colleagues--from Connecticut. As Senator Murphy just said, a budget is a moral statement and…”

“I thank my colleagues--both colleagues--from Connecticut. As Senator Murphy just said, a budget is a moral statement and how you handle the needs of your constituents in the end has got to be something that you feel in your heart. What we are saying today is that our constituents' healthcare, it is not something you can just bargain away over the summer and cut trillions of dollars from Medicaid or Medicare or the Affordable Care Act and think it is all going to be OK. And as our colleagues are learning, it is not OK. I start with the kitchen table. That is where people see their bills, and that is where, right now, they are seeing their grocery bills. For millions of Americans right now, they don't even know if they are going to be able to get groceries for their kids. That is because of what has been happening, not just with the healthcare premiums but also with those millions of Americans--those families, those veterans, those seniors, people with disabilities and their families who use SNAP.”