I ask unanimous consent that Senator Cantwell be added as a cosponsor to amendment No. 1119 and that Senator Stabenow be added as a cosponsor to amendment No. 1120. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

the amendment from the Senator from Utah speaks about ``strengthening and improving'' Medicaid and Medicare. We don't strengthen and improve Medicaid by cutting it by $1 trillion, and we don't strengthen and improve Medicare by cutting it…

let me thank Senator Van Hollen for his very perceptive and comprehensive analysis of this budget proposal, which is designed to give huge tax breaks to people who don't need it and make terrible cuts to millions of families in this…

I know that budgets are not particularly sexy and exciting discussions. A lot of people wonder about a trillion here and a hundred billion there and what it all means. It means a lot. What it means is that if this horrific Republican…

I ask unanimous consent to be permitted to complete my remarks before the Senate recesses. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

after failing to throw 32 million Americans off of the health insurance they currently have last week, the Republicans are continuing their attack against the working families of our country with one of the most destructive budgets in…

Instead of giving tax breaks to billionaires and large corporations, we must demand that they pay their fair share.

Your hearing on Monday is a sham.

I thank Senator McCain for standing up against what you are doing, even though he may inexplicably agree with the bill.

You care about nothing but being reelected, and you seem to think large contributions from wealthy contributors will make that possible.

Our job is to build on our common humanity and do everything that we can to oppose all of the forces, whether unaccountable government power or unaccountable corporate power, who try to divide us up and set us against each other.

The United States must join the rest of the industrialized world and guarantee health care to all as a right, not a privilege.

A single-payer health care system will save the average middle-class family thousands of dollars a year.

The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn e-mails.

The function of insurance companies is not to provide quality care to people. It is to make as much money as they possibly can.

Why is it that in the United States of America we are the only major country on earth that does not guarantee health care to all people as a right?

We are spending far, far, far more than any other country on earth.

Increasingly the American people believe that is the case.

I think I will shock nobody by telling the Chair that I disagree with almost every policy President Trump has brought forth. No, I do not believe that we should throw 23 million Americans off of health insurance and give hundreds of…

I think it is great that we have the Governors here today, and we should do more of that.

Until we have a vaccine that FDA has licensed as safe and effective, our best efforts must be focused on protecting expectant mothers from being exposed.

I will definitely seek counsel and intelligence from the field, including from Departmental offices as well as, and perhaps especially, from State and local public health agencies.

It is vital that we continue to build the behavioral health workforce pipeline.

this is an exciting day. After years and years, some of my Republican colleagues have begun to understand that we cannot continue a dysfunctional healthcare system which allows 28 million Americans to have no health insurance, which forces…

at last count, I think it was the Gallup poll that found 12 percent of the American people had confidence in the U.S. Congress. I think we are on our way tonight to single digits because in the modern history of this country there has…