I ask unanimous consent that a motion to commit be printed in the Record to instruct the Committee on Finance to report back with changes that ensure the bill includes a provision to lower the eligibility age for Medicare benefits to age…

I ask unanimous consent that a motion to commit be printed in the Record to instruct the Committee on Finance to report back with changes that ensure that no provision in the bill will reduce or eliminate the amount of Medicaid funding…

I ask unanimous consent that a motion to commit be printed in the Record to instruct the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions to report back with changes that ensure the bill includes a provision establishing a robust public…

if Senator Daines is just playing a political trick and does not intend to vote for this legislation or have any other Republican vote for it, I would suggest that every Member in the Senate vote present on this bill. The PRESIDING…

let me begin by taking a moment to kind of summarize for the American people where we are in this enormous discussion which is causing a great deal of anxiety all over Vermont and all over America. Several months ago, the Republican-led…

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…

I have asked my colleague from Oregon a little bit about some of the cruel and devastating impacts this legislation would have, but we have to be honest and acknowledge that there are some beneficiaries in this legislation as well. Would…

Correct me if I am wrong, but my recollection is that in the House bill there were $300 billion in tax breaks going to the top 1 percent at exactly the same time that 23 million Americans were thrown off of their health insurance; is that…

Let me ask my friend from Oregon: What kind of testimony have we heard as to the impact of this legislation on older working people, in terms of what it might mean in increased premiums? Have we heard much discussion? Has the AARP, which…

But it is not only older workers because we have as an aging population more and more people in nursing homes. Would my friend from Oregon describe what happens under this legislation if somebody has a mom or a dad in a nursing home…

I have a meeting that I have to get to. I want to summarize this. My friends from Oregon and Michigan can correct me if I am wrong. We are looking at a bill that came from the House and various proposals being introduced in the Senate…

I think it is important to repeat that because this is not something that I think most Americans are aware of. Medicaid now pays, as I understand it, for two out of three nursing home beds in this country; is that correct?

And a massive cut in Medicaid would be devastating to those families who have loved ones in nursing homes?

Right, so if my understanding is correct--and I am quite sure it is--the American Medical Association, which is not one of the great progressive groups in America but the group that represents the physicians in this country, A, they have…

There have been no hearings on a bill that impacts one- sixth of the American economy and every single American. Now, let me ask my friend from Oregon this. Obviously, before my Republican colleagues would go forward on radical legislation…

In other words, this bill is not saying to doctors: What will this mean to your patients? What happens if 32 million people are thrown off of medication? How many of them will get sick? How many of them will die? No testimony. How about…

One-sixth of the American economy is over $3 trillion every single year. Now, when we are dealing with legislation that impacts virtually every American, over $3 trillion every year, would my friend from Oregon please tell me this--and I…

Now, while the AARP and other senior groups have not been able to testify, would my friend from Oregon tell me what their views are on this particular legislation because of its impact on older workers and seniors in general?

If I could, let me ask my colleagues from Oregon or Michigan maybe to speculate here. If the House bill were to be successful--and we are going to do everything in our ability to make sure it is not successful--and Medicaid were severely…

our friend from Oregon is pointing out that this legislation would impact virtually every American because, in one way or another, we all interface with the healthcare system. I would ask my friend to confirm: This legislation would impact…

I raise a point of order that the pending amendment violates section 313(b)1(A) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. I am glad that the Senator from Nevada is concerned about Medicaid, but I would remind the Senate that yesterday the…

would my colleague please repeat that. I think it is important for older Americans to hear this. We had a candidate running for President of the United States by the name of Donald Trump, and he ran all over this country and said he was…

One of the studies my office cited was published on June 22, 2017, by the Center for American Progress. It was coauthored by a Harvard professor of social epidemiology, two medical students who graduated from Harvard's T.H. Chan School of…

I think it sends a message to every member of Trump's administration that you have an unstable guy at the top, who will turn on you for whatever reason.

What the President done is unbelievable. How do you appoint the guy, who was a member of the United States Senate, make him attorney general, and then undermine him and then humiliate him?