Brendan Boyle: “While at the same time not going down the sort of gimmicky road that sounds great in a populist way but does not…”

The 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence were signing their death forms. After all, they knew what they faced had they not succeeded.

This is going to be truly one of the highlights of my tenure in Congress, to be sitting there where our Founding Fathers sat exactly 250 years prior, to the exact day.

Ninety-nine percent of the time, when we do things [in Congress], it is of a partisan nature … so besides the history of it, I hope that after this, the spirit of this event will live on.

I truly fear for our health systems, particularly in rural areas as well as urban areas. They will not be able to withstand the full amount of these cuts once the bill is finally phased in.