SEN. TIM KAINE, D-Va.:

Judy, I wouldn't call it that.

Until we get to the end of next week, we have to be very diligent and defeat efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act and, instead, force it back in to the bipartisan discussion that my committee, the Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee, under the leadership of Senators Alexander and Senators Murray, were having.

We owe it to the American public to improve health insurance and health care, but we have got to do it, I think, in a bipartisan way. We were doing it. We were very, very close to a bipartisan deal to stabilize the individual insurance market going forward. But the president and the speaker and Leader McConnell kind of blew that effort up, at least temporarily, this week.

So we have to defeat Graham-Cassidy, and my hope is, as Senator McCain indicated today, then we will get back to doing it the way we should, which is, in an albeit Republican Senate, but have full discussions in committee with amendments and full debate on the floor.

We shouldn't jam something through on health care at the 11th hour that affects the most important expenditure of anybody's life and one-sixth of the American economy.