At the end of the day, health care is about people, not politics or posturing.

It is a little offensive, to be honest with you--that says you will not care for the least of these unless we tell you exactly how to do it.

It is way out of whack now. The balance is--back to Governor Herbert, it is the States going to the Federal Government hat in hand.

The ACA marked the largest expansion of American Indian health care in a generation.

The administration has taken a very strong and clear position of requesting that that referendum be delayed on the theory that it could be very destabilizing right now.

Is not one of the reasons that many insurers are vacating the individual market is because they are worried about these high cost claims?

Senator Kaine has proposed a long-term solution.

CSR payments that is bailing out insurance companies.

Then when you get to the high claim side, by providing reinsurance, what you are doing is you are providing a backstop.

Reinsurance costs something, but it also brings down the Federal Government's obligation.

And so the backstop ends up having a double benefit.

They have not told us that they oppose the referendum; they oppose Kurds being on a path towards self-determination.

I ask unanimous consent for 2 minutes to close, Mr. President. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered.

The time is right because the consequences are so severe: 16 million people lose insurance, 20 percent premiums compounding over the years, insurance markets skyrocketing and unstable, and Planned Parenthood defunded--the healthcare…

I also rise with my colleagues, tremendously moved by the powerful words of my friend from Hawaii: Why can't you show compassion to others that you showed to me? That is a haunting question, and I hope people will hear that not just with…

if I could just pick up on the comments of my colleague from Hawaii, we had a comical discussion 2 days ago in the Democratic caucus lunch. Comedy isn't that unusual in a caucus with Al Franken, but the comic discussion was about how we…

Well, to respond, Mr. President, to my colleague from Oregon, one of the things we have seen in the first half year of this administration is, whatever job report comes out month to month--comes out at the beginning of each month, we are…

I have a hard time understanding what this sanction on South Korea is about.

I think we all realized the leverage that China has is not being deployed sufficiently to change North Korean behavior.

I thank my colleague from Wisconsin and also my colleague from Vermont. Their words have been very powerful. I also rise to talk about healthcare. We are told in the Senate that tomorrow we vote, but we don't know what we will be voting…

this committee acted in 2016 to do sanctions that were followed on pretty quickly.

the U.S. infrastructure system is in critical need of an upgrade. The American Society of Civil Engineers recently graded the U.S. system a D+ given its capacity, condition, funding, future need, operation and maintenance, public safety…

I also take to the floor to talk about healthcare. I appreciate my colleagues who are here, earnestly pleading with all of our colleagues to be about a process--Democrats and Republicans and the committee process that we have in the…

I was pleased to see the Trump administration state that they are looking at new sanctions against Venezuela.

I think sanctions should be supportive of the Venezuelan people. I think sanctions should farther come and should have farther economic pressure on the Maduro dictatorship.