Senator Barrasso: (3:26 PM)

• Spoke on Obamacare.
  • "So the Republicans in this body and Republicans all around the country are going to continue to fight. We will not stop fighting for the kinds of reform that get the power out of Washington, to get the power back to the states, to let people have more control over decisions that affect them and their lives and their communities and their future. Democrats don't have any ideas other than higher subsidies, more government control, more one size fits all for the failed policies of the past. And these policies, I will tell you have failed. Anything that over that number of years from the president's first speech where he's condemning the fact that there are only four or five choices can now, where you're looking at one, two, or zero choices, points to the failure of the Obama health care law. It is time as we get back here - and I hope Democrats listened to people at home and heard the complaints - it's time for Democrats to work with us to give the American people the health care that they want, that they need, and that they deserve." 

 

Senator Inhofe: (3:48 PM)

• Spoke on the MilCon-VA/Zika appropriations bill.
  • "The $1.1 billion in funding provided in the conference report will be used to fight the Zika virus and prevent it from spreading. This is the same amount as the Senate-passed bill in which every Democrat voted in favor. All the Democrats voted for it. Republicans have put together a responsible funding package that includes $750 million in offsets with strong oversight and control to ensure that funds are being used properly. You know, there's a lot of discussion, a lot of things we're saying here on the floor and to the public that the public doesn't understand. They can't be expected to understand. They're too busy trying to make a living. But when they hear things like this, they shake their heads and they say, you know, what's wrong with that system up there?"
• Spoke on the Water Resources Development Act.
  • "You know, we have that old worn out document that nobody reads anymore called a Constitution. They say what we're supposed to be doing, defending America and doing infrastructure. So that's what this is all about. We have the WRDA bill, the Water Resources Development Act. It's coming up. If we get on that, this would be the thing that's going to be of benefit to everybody. I worry about it because you get to something that is good for everyone, Zika is a good example, all of a sudden opposition comes up and you don't know what the source of that opposition is but it's there. Now, real briefly, I'm going to cover these things because of the significance of the WRDA bill, the water resources bill. We talk about five different areas."

 

Senator Cornyn: (4:06 PM)

• Spoke on the MilCon-VA/Zika appropriations bill.
  • "But for the health of our country and the protection of all of our children, let's get this compromise legislation done. No one should doubt the gravity of the threat or the long-term health consequences of failing to get our work done. So I hope that our Democratic colleagues put their words into action and vote to send additional resources to those communities across this country that are already working hard to defeat the Zika virus. I would just conclude by saying I would just implore our Democratic colleagues, including the senior senator from Nevada, the Democratic leader, to quit saying things that just are demonstrably not true. We have worked hard, many times over the Democratic leader's objection - I can think of two of them that stand out in my mind for trade promotion authority and for a long-term highway bill where he didn't support it and he actively tried to block it."