Do you think there is any such thing as a good shutdown of the United States Government?

The question the American people want to know, particularly if they are of the 11 million people in the exchanges or the 18 million in the whole individual market is, 'Well, what are you going to do about that?'

I have a general concern about the size of the national debt and how it has grown from $10 trillion to $20 trillion.

Well, how about if they say this to me, they say, well, dollars are some of it, and I see that there is a Medicaid cut that is somewhere between $800 billion and $1.4 trillion, and I see that there is a tax cut that is $992 billion.

A huge concern on this side of the aisle about the health care effort right now is that we not repeat what was done in the House.

Insurance for everybody.

Should this body try to keep President Trump's promises, a health care system where nobody loses coverage, nobody pays more, and nobody with a preexisting condition has to revert back to a position where they are going to get kicked around?

I do not think that means perish for a minute or a day, much less 16 days or longer.

I actually think there are some really profitable areas of working together between Democrats and Republicans, between Congress and the White House on budget reform issues.

Now, Mr. Chairman, when Donald Trump campaigned for President, he told the American people that he would be a different type of Republican.

We just want to, on behalf of our constituents and the American public, have an opportunity to see a CBO report.

If I could sort of summarize, you do have two sort of different theories. The Republican position tends to be that you get growth by less taxes, less regulation. The Democratic position tends to be that you get growth through better…

The thought of a shutdown just scares them to death.

The way I described to my constituents the difference between an appropriations bill and a continuing resolution is I say one is like driving looking through the windshield looking forward, an appropriations bill, projecting forward; and a…

The President said, 'I will not cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid,' and I think you were smart not to put the Medicaid line in this because I do not think it keeps the President's promise to not cut Medicaid.

the Congress should have as a goal to provide an environment of policy certainty so that business decisions are not driven by concern and a lack of clarity over the future course of public policy.

Under Donald Trump, nobody is going to lose coverage. The CBO yesterday said 23 million people are going to lose coverage.

While my colleagues on the other side of the aisle do not have a plan, they are now creating Trumpcare by sabotage.

They deserve security. They deserve certainty and not empty promises.

It also keeps the President's promise to balance the budget within the next decade and reduce our debt without affecting beneficiaries of Social Security and Medicare retirement programs, and without raising taxes.

It is clear to me that the United States alone has little chance of preventing North Korea from achieving its stated objective, and that we need to work with other countries.

We have tried isolation in the past, and it has not worked. We need to be engaged with other countries, and that is particularly true with North Korea.

I have already commented on that, about how reckless and dangerous I think that executive order was, and I do not believe it is constitutional or legal.

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