Let me tell you about the young man in the blue shirt on the poster board behind me. This is Dr. Bignall, whom I met at Cincinnati Children's Hospital.

So you see in Columbus and Harrisburg and Denver and Jeff City, you can see lobbyists for nursing homes fighting with advocates for children's hospitals, fighting with opioid addiction counselors for those declining dollars, those scarce…

I appreciate what Senator Bennet said a moment ago about the discussion from the other side on, their words, the failure of Obamacare.

The guarantee of essential benefits--gone. That means prescription drug coverage is on the chopping block.

According to the Brookings Institution, 32 million people will lose their health coverage under it.

The process that has led to this moment has been an abomination.

Instead, what's on offer with Graham-Cassidy would trigger a health-care disaster--a death spiral in the insurance markets.

We know this Graham-Cassidy bill does not at all address the issue of opioid treatment, of treatment paid for by Medicaid.

If we are forced to make the draconian cuts required by this bill, all of our efforts would be focused on how we cut $15-30 billion from our Medicaid program.

Senate Republicans haven't gotten answers to the most basic questions about the real-world effects of their bill.

No, individuals with preexisting conditions will not be protected under the Graham-Cassidy legislation.

I do think we are looking at huge transfers of funding from expansion States to non-expansion States.

Mr. Chairman, I just want to interject that, comments notwithstanding from the panel, CHIP expires this Saturday.

What's happening this afternoon isn't a serious hearing--it's a talking point.

This bill dismantles Medicaid as we know it.

I am proud that in my State, a Republican Governor, John Kasich, did in fact expand Medicaid; 700,000 people--700,000 people--in my State have health insurance because the Governor did that.

Once again, in the Trumpcare bill there is an attack on women's health.

This bill is an all-out assault on vital consumer protection.

If you are a huge corporation under our proposal and you choose to pay your workers so little that they are disproportionately forced onto government assistance, you need to reimburse American taxpayers.

We need to encourage companies to invest in their greatest asset, the American worker.

It simply says that businesses that pay good wages of $15 an hour and provide benefits and do not outsource their jobs and buy American, basically, that those companies would get a tax cut.

I rise to speak about the nomination of Pam Patenaude to be Deputy Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Ms. Patenaude comes to this nomination with valuable experience in the field of housing and community…

We do not really see how--we do not hear up close the stories of Mr. Parker.

The latest proposal now that they floated would take away freedom the American people have to choose a retirement savings plan that works best for them.

If the President and congressional Republicans want to work together with us, as Chairman Hatch promises us, to build a tax code that puts more money in the pockets of working Americans...