Bill Lee: “We needed the Federal Government to provide that oversight---- of civil rights protection.”

Medicaid, healthcare outcomes and the cost of healthcare are of the utmost importance to our states. Not only because they are such a big piece of our budget but because it is about serving some of the most vulnerable in our communities.

It surprises me in the sense that it seems phenomenally unwise. It would have surprised me earlier in my lifetime. It would have surprised me even earlier in my time here in the U.S. Senate; yet something has happened in recent years that…

I think it’s really important that the courts will weigh in on this. The legislature has followed the authority and the process that they believe fairly and appropriately divides districts, as they have done for generations as has happened…

It is important to me. I think it is important to the American people, who overwhelmingly support this measure and the policy changes it would bring about when enacted into law, that we keep our running tally of the arguments being raised…