"Unfortunately, this hearing is also part of a larger agenda to repeal the Affordable Care Act, root and branch."
"These are meaningful protections that have improved the lives of people in this country - protections that the Republicans are threatening to take away."
"I have one to increase that to $15 an hour by 2024, gradual increase and then to incentivize it with tax credits."
"How do you think these two bills if they were to be enacted and signed into law would impact the economy?"
"It is about predictability. Most importantly it is that V-22, who we hear as early as last week from the Commandant of the Marine Corps, how important it is for those two additional airframes."
"We usually call that throwing darts in the night and hoping you hit a bull's-eye."
"we are trying very much to give you your needed predictability."
"This is our war, indicating that he and his partners in the Gulf. It can't be America against them."