Do you see that as being an impediment to getting the votes in the Congress, if these kinds of issues are out there?

Your budget contains several proposals for structural reforms to Medicare, all of which will increase the cost on beneficiaries.

I think that, you know, we have to look at what we have accomplished. We have reduced the deficit by half.

It strikes me that, year after year, the basket of goods that people can buy has dropped over the course of time with the minimum wage.

Anyone who is working full-time in this country should have a wage that is at least at the poverty level.

The issue that we are dealing with here is not Democrat, is not Republican. It is kids that are ground up in the system.

And the efforts to interrupt that, I think, are what we are really here to talk about today.

the reason I raise this issue is that I want the people who see and hear about what happened here today to understand that doing what they are doing at Treehouse is not done on the cheap, nor is it done without money.

You are witnessing a rare occurrence, I think, in the modern-day Congress, a Democrat and a Republican working together on something.

You're going to get single-payer care because Americans are not going to walk away from people who don't have health care.

I'm sure we'll hear shortly how ObamaCare has brought problems in the Middle East and created problems in the waters of West Virginia and probably even climate change.

If we can get rid of this 30-hour rule, why, everything will be all better.