Nobody has to buy a lemon just because it's the last car on the lot. The Graham-Cassidy bill is a health-care lemon; a disaster in the making.

I will just say that many Senators have expressed a desire to examine details of the proposal we are discussing today.

I reminded him that his mom probably did.

This bill's sponsors aren't even waiting for the official facts and figures from the independent scorekeepers.

We respectfully invoke our right, under Senate Rule XXVI, for a majority of the minority members of the Finance Committee to call for an additional day of hearings with respect to the Graham-Cassidy proposal.

In 10 years, to continue that block grant would cost $190 billion for that next year at level funding.

this bill is an attack on vital consumer protections.

It is called Obamacare. Barack Obama had nothing to do with its creation.

the heart of this bill is a scheme that punishes States that have worked hard to build strong private markets.

I want to make sure that nobody fouls it up.

I sure think it is more appropriate that Senator Cassidy wears one hat during this hearing rather than two.

The process that has brought Graham-Cassidy to the brink of passage would be laughable if the well-being of tens of millions of Americans wasn't hanging in the balance.

the President's proposal to create a special pass-through business income rate, which strikes me as a giant tax giveaway for the top 1 percent, masquerading under the guise of helping small businesses.

If you create a very large tax benefit to being able to declare your income in a certain favored form, you are going to create a lot of people all along the scrupulousness dimension.

I want to make clear that this is an abomination. It's an abomination of the process, it's an abomination of the substance, and it's an abomination of the history of this storied committee.

I believe that this is an abomination. It is an abomination of the process, it is an abomination of the substance, and it is an abomination of the history of this storied committee.

before the Senator leaves the floor, I just want to draw attention to the central point the Senator from Illinois has been making tonight. He has been focused on what our duties to the American people are all about, which is to make their…

Legislation like Senator Wyden's and Senator Hoeven's Move America Act (S. 1229) should be part of the finance toolbox.

So as you consider making changes to Section 230, I hope you keep looking out for that person we were talking about 20 years ago, the little guy, the person who has taken a big risk.

Numerous experts obviously have pointed out that Section 230 was absolutely necessary to bring our legal system into the 21st century.

But one of the central questions of this hearing is who primarily benefits from corporate rate cuts.

This abomination of a process stands in stark contrast to what this committee has been able to achieve with respect to the Children's Health Insurance Program.

Rather than looking at the economic consensus by CBO, JCT, Treasury, and TPC, some on this committee choose to cherry-pick one-off studies from economists outside the mainstream who agree with their political views.

This bill is a prescription for suffering and disastrous consequences for millions of Americans.

The key question, Mr. Chairman and colleagues, was, Would there be an Internet dominated by private networks with the worst impulses of human beings going on in impenetrable dark corners, or would the Internet be a platform open to the…