"We can’t be cutting health care for working people and for poor people in order to constantly give special tax treatment to corporations and other entities."
"This has been an unhappy episode here in Congress, this effort to cut Medicaid."
"I want to be clear, I'm going to spend the next however long trying to make sure that the cuts that we have successfully delayed never take place."
"This has been an unhappy episode here in Congress, this effort to cut Medicaid. And I think, frankly, my party needs to do some soul searching."
"I introduced legislation to increase the national baseline wage to $15 per hour."
"I think shutting down rural hospitals would be a big mistake."
"It was a bad idea on their part to fool around with it."
"It needs work. And they don’t have 51 votes."
"That’s not my favorite thing."
"I don’t want us fighting a war. I don’t want another Mideast war."
"the Senate version of the bill needs a lot of work."