We need to figure out how to make this happen.

the diminishment of authority that Article I created so that the people govern the country

I feel very, very strongly about.

It is unacceptable that we are spending this much money, and the number one and best investment we could make is into the men and women who serve.

We have a lot of work to do.

I think those of us on this committee have a deep appreciation what you do day in and day out.

I think my colleagues on both sides of the aisle would agree that the language in this bill could be improved to avoid any unintended consequences.

Individuals who have received a kidney transplant require immunosuppressive drugs for the rest of their life in order to minimize the risk of their immune system rejecting the kidney.

I am glad that we are having a hearing on this bill as it is critical that we hear from States and the communities served by this benefit as to how it is working and what value it brings to the Medicaid program.

This is probably a distraction from the wobbly week we've seen on Wall Street.

We're looking for change, I've been saying, it's not about Left or Right. It's about new and better, and we've got to get past this Left-Right divide in the country, or we're not going to be able to move forward.

It's the President of the United States.

I actually think economics is going to be a huge issue, and I think Trump's making a big mistake. Vast majority of the people in the country are still living paycheck to paycheck, about 75 percent.

I think their power is diminished because of their internal and external problems. But the - the anti-groups are so much stronger than they were when I started Congress 17 years ago, and even five years ago.

The suburbs are already moving away from Trump electorally because of his behavior, because of his actions, because of his incompetence.

Inaction is not acceptable. And so, the President could ignore this at his peril, Republicans can ignore it at their peril.

Everything he said during the campaign was a lie. I mean he said he was going to raise taxes on the rich. He cut taxes on the rich.

I think parents, kids are afraid to go to school. I'm - I'm hearing that from a lot of people I know. They're afraid to go out.

No - no question. This has been the strategy for the 17 years I've been in Congress, and long before that. Slow-walk it, Potomac two-step, hey let's have a conversation about it, hey let's have a conversation about something else…

Well if it doesn't happen, there will be consequences at the ballot box. There's no question that there will be a--

I think it started to accumulate. And then what happened last week when people went to bed on Saturday night, heartbroken about El Paso and went to sleep and woke up and their phone alerts were telling them about Dayton, Ohio, I think that…

We've got to keep the focus on it. So, if you want to have an honest conversation about red flags, I think that's an important step that we can all take in a bipartisan way, but we've got to go further than that.

Yes, I think we have to be skeptical, which is why we're here. We think we need to put the political pressure not only on Mitch McConnell and his home state, but also other Republican senators around the country.

To my knowledge, this promise has not yet been fulfilled either. And so now is the time for the Department to make good on its commitments.

Now is the time for the Department to make good on its commitments.