But we had a real crisis that was driven by predatory mortgages, both mortgages that were undocumented and mortgages that had exploding interest rates.

Are you contending rural America will get the same amount of resources it has after you savage all these programs?

Using the churn as a strategy to simply eliminate Medicaid expansion means roughly 400,000 fewer Oregonians will be covered.

Why make a housing emergency worse?

Doesn't the health care bill itself violate this Mnuchin rule?

Well, clearly what you are doing in this budget is going to do a lot of damage to those individuals.

So here we are, already in America the top 1 percent control 40 percent of the wealth and the top 10 percent control three-quarters of the wealth.

Then you feel very comfortable cutting the basic program that ensures our children have food in Oregon?

Under the H.R. 1628 Trumpcare 2.0, Medicaid expansion is essentially wiped out.

I would suggest you know very little about housing in Oregon.

That health care plan, which is estimated to strip health care from 23 million Americans, delivers to Americans making more than $1 million an average $50,000 tax cut.

So you are completely abandoning the principle that you asserted before?

I appreciate my colleague's contributions and his insights, representing Virginia and representing the United States. I must say that all of us were quite frustrated by the hearing we held with Rex Tillerson. We know that America needs a…

the fiscal year 2018 budget proposal... includes $3.6 trillion in tax cuts with three-quarters of that going to the top 1 percent of Americans.

This budget cuts rural business loans, rural development, rural transportation, rural water, essential service to rural airports.

I hope you will also be 100 percent committed to the principle of not allowing predatory mortgages back into the marketplace.

Because Libya had voluntarily retired its nuclear program under international assurances of non-aggression, and, in fact, those assurances fell apart?

I think that reinforces the point Senator Cardin was making in the beginning about a coherent strategy.

I would love to follow up and get a better understanding of that because I think it is relevant to what we consider doing in the future.

citizens across the country are very concerned. In fact, they are more than concerned; they are terrified that our President is degrading the fundamental values on which our Nation was founded: religious tolerance, freedom of religion, the…

We need a health-care system. It gives peace of mind to Americans, not distress of whether you'll be able to get care.

Did President Reagan's 1981 tax cut increase or decrease revenue?

I would love to have this Committee have a full examination, including inviting the public to come in and testify about the many times that this has been the only way that they have gained justice.

We finally have that consumer watchdog. We know what would happen if we had structured the funding differently.

One of the false facts that has been repeated in previous budgets is to say that tax cuts for corporations and tax cuts for the rich in America will increase revenue.