The Trump budget would eliminate the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program.

The Trump budget would cut affordable housing to some 250,000 families at a time when millions of working people are spending 40, 50, or 60 percent of their limited incomes trying to put a roof over their heads.

I would simply say, Mr. Chairman, that this nominee is really not someone who is what this country is supposed to be about. I will vote no.

This is a budget that would cause devastating economic pain to tens of millions of Americans.

We write to express our deep concerns about the nomination of Russell Vought to the position of Deputy Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget. Mr. Vought has denigrated American Muslims and the Muslim faith. His…

It is not just that there are massive cuts to health care, to education, to nutrition, to environmental protection, to affordable housing--about $2.5 trillion in cuts over a 10-year period.

The bottom line is the administration has nothing to say about the absurdity of providing unbelievable tax breaks to people who do not need it while making major cuts for working families.

The nomination by President Trump of an individual who has expressed such strong Islamophobic language is simply unacceptable.

Muslims do not simply have a deficient theology. They do not know God because they have rejected Jesus Christ, His Son, and they stand condemned.

Do you really think that they think it is a great idea to give up to a $52 billion tax break to the wealthiest family in this country, a family worth something like $130 billion?

Tax breaks for the rich and cuts in programs for working people are the same old Republican ideology that we have heard from for years.

the budget that Mr. Vought helped write is perhaps the most destructive and cruel budget ever presented by a President in the history of our country.

What leadership in a democratic society is about is bringing people together.

Once they get in, how do they feel about the quality of care in the VA?

I want to recognize George Albert Perreault, Jr., a Korean war veteran whose remains are being brought home to Vermont, 66 years after he was declared missing in action. CPL Perreault enlisted in the U.S. Army after graduating from…

They will do the same thing on social security. After you give huge tax breaks to the hundreds of billions of dollars to the very rich, they'll say, 'Oh, the deficit is going up, we've got to cut social security.'

Don't you think maybe there might have been a hearing or to discuss the implications of this legislation?

This bill is a disaster, it is an embarrassment.

Mr. President, I'm sorry to disappoint you, this bill in its current form is not getting through the Senate. No way. No way.

If the bill passed today in the House and it became law, thousands of Americans would die because they would no longer have access to health care.

Well, Mr. President, you're right. In Australia and every other major country on earth, they guarantee health care to all people.

Donald Trump and Republicans just celebrated voting to let thousands of Americans die so that billionaires get tax breaks.

These guys put it together in a few weeks' time, zero hearings; they didn't hear from the American Medical Association, who oppose this legislation.

This bill is a disaster. It is an embarrassment.

Mr. President, I'm sorry to disappoint you. This bill in its current form is not getting through the Senate. No way. No way.