Bob Casey

What the consequences of this delay have been, which are very real.

Thank you so much for hosting this hearing in western Pennsylvania, which, in many ways, was America's foundry for so many generations.

I told the President how Pennsylvania companies have been hammered.

China is going after America's competitive advantage by any means necessary.

When China cheats, Pennsylvania loses jobs. It is that simple.

I urged him not to take that long and move swiftly on this long-delayed relief.

I urge you to reject Medicaid waiver applications from States that would further three things: limit, restrict, or block Americans' guaranteed access to affordable coverage.

I hope your goal also would be that no one loses coverage who is covered by Medicaid now.

I would hope that you would put an end to that.

My real concern is twofold. Number one is that the administration, I believe, in a little more than a year now, has been sabotaging the Affordable Care Act.

More than 2 million people are covered. But also, you could think about it with three numbers: 40, 50, 60.

Individuals with pre-existing conditions could lose, would lose the guarantee of affordable health insurance.

The Brookings Institution found that more than 20 million Americans could lose insurance if we go that path.

More than two-thirds of Governors urged Congress not to pass that proposal.

Americans support it, they want to keep the Affordable Care Act.

We have a moral obligation to the least of these, and that includes the moral obligation to make sure people have access to health care, everybody has access to health care.

We, as you know, passed the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, where Congress provided the administration with additional authorities to hold accountable countries like Iran, Russia, and North Korea for their…

I would have preferred that we just gave it directly to the workers. That would have been my preference. My argument did not prevail.

I would argue that we had an opportunity to have a transformative Child Tax Credit and it did not happen.

But a married couple with two children, earning $400,000... that family would benefit from the Child Tax Credit $4,000 in the year.

A single mother with two children earning $14,500... her increase in the Child Tax Credit year over year would be 75 bucks.

We need to figure out a way to provide financial support, provide respite, provide opportunities for them to continue to live their lives.

We're told that, by one calculation, grandparents and other relatives who raise children outside of the foster care system save something on the order of $4 billion each year.

But this is both a human challenge, but it's also a--the reality is that these families end up helping all of us in the dollars they save.

One of the real horrors of the--or I should say one of the worse manifestations of what we've been dealing with in the opioid crisis is that you have individuals who have lived full lives and then reach the point where, because a son or…