Derrick Van Orden: “I strongly recommend that you do that because no one is going to get to--you can only get to functional 365.”

If someone goes from an exceptionally high performer to somebody who is really having very basic issues, it's incumbent upon leadership to acknowledge that and try to figure out what the problem is in a way that is good for the sailor…

Philosophically, I completely disagree with this. But I’m not going to leave millions of Americans who truly need health care insurance in the lurch.

You always try to find something good out of bad things.

So this bill will pass. Am I happy about everything? No, but there's a difference between compromise and capitulation. We're not capitulating. We're compromising.