If confirmed as Administrator, I intend to work with States and Congress to improve Medicaid and implement the laws enacted by Congress.

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I want to compliment my friend, the Senator from Ohio, for his comments. I know my friend, the Senator from Washington, is going to make comments after this, so I will try to make mine as brief as possible. I apologize. I joined the…

in honor of African-American History Month and in support of efforts to promote education and training in 21st century careers involving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, I want to bring the attention of this body to the…

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I also rise today to voice my concerns about Senator Jeff Sessions to serve as U.S. Attorney General. While I respect Senator Sessions' public service, I cannot and will not support his nomination. I also rise to raise the concerns of…

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First of all, Mr. President, I thank my colleague, the Senator from Vermont, for his statement, and remarkably, the events of the last 24 hours, with Senator Warren's comments and now Senator Sanders' comments and others, and the fact that…

I have seen lots of tricky budgets before, but this may take the cake.

The legislation that Senator King and I and others, bipartisan, are working on, we will not need this because CBO will come to a rational conclusion.

I do believe we need to deal with our entitlements.

I have spent years going through these numbers to try to get them to balance.

I want a commitment that we are going to work this out and we are going to work through this issue.

We increased the spending on the VA, yet if we do not translate that into service for in this case veterans' health care...

How can you cut those so draconianly, cutting discretionary spending by $1.4 trillion over the next 10 years?

I do not think your numbers add up. I think they do not pass the smell test.

I would never invest in a business that spent less than 3 percent of its revenue line on workforce, plant and equipment, and staying ahead of the competition.

we have the worst, most complicated Tax Code with highest nominal rates.

You cannot pay for it in any revenue-neutral basis without double or triple counting or dynamic scoring on steroids.

I hope that would mean, as you have said here today, that that would look at both sides of the balance sheet.

before my friend, the Senator from Texas, leaves, I am sure he understands that I am rising now in support of the nomination of Congressman Mike Pompeo to be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. But before I speak on the nominee, I…

I understand your concerns with the Cadillac tax. I know there are concerns you and others have raised about the individual mandate.

I would take exception to what the Senator from Pennsylvania said.

Are you aware that the size of the Federal civilian workforce relative to the country's population has actually declined dramatically over the last number of decades?

It seems like there is at the same time a rush to eliminate all of the things that pay for the ability of Americans to have those kind of services.