Patty Murray

Your budget proposes extending the children's health insurance program by 2 years, it includes draconian cuts to that program that would most certainly jeopardize healthcare for millions more children and families.

Your budget would end the traditional Medicaid program as we know it by imposing draconian cuts to coverage for millions of children, pregnant women, people with disabilities, and low-income seniors.

Under Trumpcare, people's healthcare costs, especially for seniors and those with preexisting conditions, would go way up.

Senate Republicans are doing everything they can to make sure it stays that way, and it's pretty clear why.

I am deeply concerned the work of your administration on healthcare would take our healthcare system and the well-being and financial security of families nationwide in a deeply damaging direction.

Money spent to provide that education is a sound investment in our Nation's future.

This is something that I think we need to continue to focus on, to make sure that we have a strong military in the future.

If you could provide us quarterly updates to this committee regarding the department-wide response to groundwater contamination, I would really appreciate it.

We cannot do our job if we do not know what the costs are.

I am very concerned about where the money is going to come from, from this.

I will not accept giving benefits and then taking 94 percent of them away. That is ridiculous.

It seems to me, watching this, that this is just another way the Administration is balancing its budget on the backs of veterans in need.

I will just say we are really appalled that this is being done in secret, and I hope you pass that onto your colleagues.

We have a responsibility to our constituents to ask questions, to offer amendments, to be a part of that process particularly when millions of Americans are going to lose their coverage, pay higher costs, and feel the impact of that.

The fact that a Republican Trumpcare bill is going to be jammed through here in a few weeks without any look at it by this committee, to me, is really appalling.

I think people in the country are deeply worried about what is happening to the healthcare system.

I appreciate that you are having this hearing. I also would very much appreciate that we have a hearing on a bill that we are going to see that our folks have not seen.

We have no idea. We have not seen it. The people we represent do not have any idea.

You have not yet scheduled a hearing on the Republican Trumpcare bill.

I really do appreciate you having this hearing, prescription drug prices is extremely important.

If you do, if you drop your efforts to sabotage the healthcare system and enact Trumpcare, and if you are ready to tackle the challenges by bringing down the healthcare costs for families, we are at the table.

I really hope that instead of working to jam Trumpcare legislation through, according to an independent CBO analysis, is a direct threat to the lives, and health, and financial security of millions of people.

It unfortunately sounds like this legislation is based on the very same principles as the disastrous House Trumpcare bill.

People deserve public debate about the future of our healthcare system.

I cannot say how strongly enough, how unacceptable this is, and I will be very loud and vocal about this.