The worst experience any majority can have is that you convene and you look around and nothing's ready to go.

What happens in committee if the committee functions, more often than not, not every time but more often than not, a bill comes out with bipartisan support.

It is a statement to the obvious, however, that [Barack] Obama - of Obamacare - is the President of the United States, so I don't want people to have [unrealistic] expectations about what may actually become law with Obama - of Obamacare - in the White House. But we intend to keep our commitment to the American people.

Republicans will not be reduced to being the tax collectors for the Obama economy.

I'm not going to critique the president's every utterance, but I do think America is exceptional. America is different. We don't operate in any way the Russians do. I think there's a clear distinction here that all Americans understand, and no, I would not have characterized it that way.

Sometime in the near future we'll have a vote on repealing Obamacare, essentially the same vote that we had in 2015. I would remind everyone that in that proposal there's a two-year delay, a two-year delay which would give us the opportunity to work out a complete replacement on a bipartisan basis with our Democratic friends.

Forcing free market plans to compete with these government-run programs would create an unlevel playing field and inevitably doom true competition.