I would ask my colleagues to oppose this motion. We have had this discussion a number of times. This defeats the budget, and this isn't the appropriate place to rehash this or to try to do something different. Everything we have been…

I think the end result is that we're not getting good value for what we are spending.

I support my own Senator, Senator Shaheen's bill, Senate bill 1099--she has bipartisan support with Senator Scott.

health insurance is expensive because healthcare is expensive, and that has to be part of the solution.

Those fundamental underpinning consumer protections that are built into the act must remain in place. They can't be compromised.

We're the inventors for all of the things for the rest of the world, and I know of a lot of things that are coming through the pipeline now that will make a difference to people.

I remember Senator Sanders' comment that there are 35 million people who are still uninsured.

I would beg you, Mr. Chairman, to focus on the goal. What is it that we are trying to accomplish?

I appreciate that, and I think Mr. Harte was talking about the things that you have a little bit more pre-planning on than your concussion or her car wreck.

I very strongly believe that the United States should join every other major industrialized country with a national healthcare program.

I think the reason we're holding this hearing is I think they're the main ones that are having difficulties with it.

You know, it's kind of interesting to learn something about a subject before we do a bill on it.

One of the things we were working out was a 10-step plan for providing healthcare for everyone.

Thank you for your questions, and, of course, if you or your staff have more, we can get some written responses, too.

I got to work with Senator Kennedy for years, and we did a lot in other bills.

I would far rather see scarce Federal dollars go to support people at the lower end of the income scale.

I don't think that's where we want to go as a country, and we're not going to.

We're here to make sure that we can collectively work together for the accessibility and affordability of health insurance for all Americans.

I want to talk a little bit today about jobs and the economy and people's health care, and they are all related. We are in the midst of one of the slowest growth periods for the economy in the recent history of the United States. They just…

section 4311 of S. Con. Res. 11, the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2016, allows the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee to revise the allocations, aggregates, and levels in the budget resolution for legislation…

Last month, for the first time since 2001, Congress agreed to a joint 10-year Federal budget that put our Nation on a path to a balanced budget.

The burden of government continues to grow for each and every American.

The absence of such a system for regulations is an increasingly odd deficiency.

So we did not worry about what the percentage was of GDP. We worried about whether we were paying all our bills or not.

Ted and I agree on about 80 percent of the stuff. We disagree on 20 percent of the stuff.