We have got to raise the minimum wage to a living wage, 15 bucks an hour, pay equity for women.

The American people want us to deal with the crisis that they face right now today.

We've got to do that.

I am going to do everything I can and I know there are people all over this country who are standing up and are fighting back.

This is barbaric. Frankly, this is what oligarchy is all about. It's the wealthy and powerful say, we need even more tax breaks despite that fact that we're doing phenomenally well.

What we are for is to raise the minimum wage to a living wage, to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure.

We have got to tell the billionaire class, who are doing phenomenally well, that Trump is serving so arduously right now.

This is the most anti-working class legislation that I have ever seen. This is legislation for the billionaire class.

Throwing 23 million people off of health insurance is not great health care.

The Democratic Party has to do a lot of internal soul searching and to understand that for the last 10 years, the model that they have had really has not worked.

let me thank the Senator from Massachusetts for his very cogent and important remarks. Let me just start off by asking the Chair, asking the leader of the Republican party, what are you afraid of? What are you afraid of? Health care…

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If they are overprescribing.

So, this is actually taking money away from VA benefits and using it in another purpose.

What I do not want to see--and I think Senator Tester--many of us do not want to see the shifting of funds that go to traditional VA health care moved to the Choice Program.

Cutting Medicaid would hurt veterans. Efforts in Congress to cut Medicaid jeopardize a critical source of health coverage for veterans.

Can you say a word about how the VA can lead this country away from opioids, although obviously sometimes they are necessary, into less type of dependent drug approaches?

everything we do as a Committee--Senator Manchin--will pale in comparison to the hell we are going to catch if it is going to cost $800 million to handle those claims before 2026.

I watched them privatize all kinds of things that never worked, because once you go outside and privatize, you are adding layers of bureaucracy and cost.

Ultimately, you are absolutely right, Senator. We cannot forget the need to invest in VA's ability to provide direct care, hire more physicians, expand facilities, because, ultimately, that is the preferred choice of veterans, and we need…

If the Republican health care plan goes through--and I am going to do everything I can to see that it does not...

the VA has a pretty good health care system.

So, if veterans lost their Medicaid, there is a reasonable possibility, many of them would turn to the VA for care.

I would like to see that program expanded. What it does is provides debt forgiveness.