Political Quotes

“That is my easiest colleague's question I have gotten within these 13 hours. Yes, they should. I was talking in the healthcare section about, while there are these big issues that we should be concerned about-- $880 billion for Medicaid--cutting all of that out to give to the wealthiest, as you said--God bless them; they don't need our help; they don't need more tax cuts--to give them tax cuts, and explode the deficit, this is literally taking from working Americans. The letters we read, the voices of Americans, the fear, the anguish, the hurt, the worry, people who were suffering from Parkinson's, who had children with disabilities, who had elder parents living with them, so many people telling them--not $880 billion, their whole financial well-being was hanging on a thread and just cutting transportation programs involved. But I said, while all that was going on, the Trump administration was still doing other things to attack ACA enrollment, to attack the tax credits that people are relying on, and doing other things to drive up costs. I know some of my colleagues are on the floor, like Amy Klobuchar. We have centered the lowering prescription costs, and he is doing things to drive out-of-pocket costs up. There is a cruelty in that. And I intend to still be standing at noon, when we have the pause in the Senate for the Pledge and the prayer. And, Pastor, I want to talk to you in the way that you talked to me last night.…”