I believe we need to buildupon the foundation of the health care system we have and make targeted, common sense changes that will improve the ACA.

if you go the partisan route on taxes, you are trampling on the history of successful tax reform.

Democrat and Republican, I think we have a lot of agreement about producing documents and being responsive.

the President keeps threatening to cut those payments to score what I think is a misguided political win.

I think we have made some good progress this week with the hearings that have been scheduled.

I have sent a letter--two letters, actually, since April--requesting this particular document from HHS.

Thank you, Madam President. I rise to speak in opposition to the nomination of Marvin Kaplan to serve as a member of the National Labor Relations Board. Mr. Kaplan has spent much of his career as a staff member in Congress, where he worked…

the tax system is just broken.

Our Nation is in the midst of an unprecedented opioid epidemic. I share Secretary Price's tremendous sense of urgency to combat this public health threat.

you certainly have my commitment that this area is extremely important, and I understand the value of it, and will argue for such programs to be scaled, and they should be across the country.

The programs are already making a difference since the time it has been implemented.

The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program sets income limits at 50 percent, 60 percent of area median income; however, extremely low-income households have incomes that are less than 30 percent of area median income.

the President is clearly not in tune with the housing crisis that we have in this country.

I think the country is grateful to hear that news, and we are appreciative of that.

Climate change is a serious threat to human health.

the President's fiscal year 2018 budget request slashes HUD's funding by more than $7 billion.

It is called the Pregnancy Assistance Fund which was both authorized and had an appropriation attached to it in the bill for 10 years, $250 million over 10 years.

the President and the Administration are failing to live up to that promise.

I will be a strong advocate for the programs that are working.

I intend to offer the following motion to H.R. 1628, and I ask unanimous consent that it be printed in the Record. The motion is supported by Senators Stabenow, Duckworth, Hassan, Van Hollen, Murray, Brown, Blumenthal, Carper, Durbin…

I know the Chair said I may speak for a few minutes before the vote. I spoke earlier so I will not reiterate every argument. Really, what we are doing with this particular amendment is sending this legislation to the Finance Committee so…

first, I thank my friend from Indiana, Senator Donnelly, for his remarks this afternoon and also for his efforts to help to protect and preserve Medicaid so that hundreds of thousands of people in our States and across the country can…

I have a motion to commit at the desk. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the motion. The legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Pennsylvania Mr. CASEY moves to commit the bill H.R. 1628 to the Committee on Finance…

Thank you and your colleagues for their bipartisan support of the Special Diabetes Program. It is doing great work for everybody.

Thanks very much, Chairman Collins. I was mentioning before that one of our witnesses is from Pennsylvania: Lorynn Watt.