"This bill has back-loaded savings and has front-loaded spending."
"Currently—NO."
"I sure hope House & Senate leadership are coming up with a backup plan…. ….. because I’m not here to rack up an additional $20 trillion in debt over 10 years or to subsidize healthy, able-bodied adult..."
"We will need SIGNIFICANT additional changes to garner my support."
"How about we do the job we got elected 5 months ago to do and see where the chips fall. Cut Spending. Shrink the Deficit. Cut Taxes. Lead."
"My colleagues, who do not want to address that, are burying their head in the sand."
"Somebody come back and show me your basic math."
"The policy as it currently exists incentivizes states to add people to the rolls that are decidedly not within the design of Medicaid as envisioned."
"If the House budget reconciliation package does not include structural Medicaid reform that achieves desired Republican outcomes, we will be setting up massive tax increases and benefit cuts in the fu..."
"The president has unlocked America’s energy potential, or at least taken a giant step to do so."
"If other states don’t like California’s approach, they don’t need to follow it…But Congress shouldn’t intervene."
"We shouldn’t have such high local taxes and the federal government shouldn’t subsidize it."