Sylvester Turner: “Don’t mess with Medicaid.”

For people who are fighting to stay warm, take care of their families, looking for a way to move forward. If nothing else, they expect for their leaders to be where they are, to remain on the ship and not to abandon the ship because you…

I hear it all the time, Anderson. I hear it all the time. We just had a public hearing. Our budget process starts next week and there were a number of speakers who came just this week and talked about defunding or reducing the police…

And the direct answer, Congressman Veasey, is no. And these issues were discussed in 2011, in 2012, and subsequent years. So the answer is no.

It does happen way too often, you know, Anderson. It is important, for example, that we create a system or devise a system that respects everyone.