Jeff Van Drew: “I do want to congratulate the Chairman on being Chairman once again and look forward to working with him.”

It’s morally bankrupt not to do it and it is politically stupid.

We absolutely need him.

But — there’s a big but with that — if we’re not ready, then we need to, for a year or a year and a half, renew the subsidy.

If you hurt these hospitals some will close, some people will have to utilize emergency rooms even more. … This is political stupidity; it’s political suicide.