Political Quotes

“I thank the Presiding Officer. I will wrap up. I see the Senator from Washington on the floor. Throughout the Obamacare debate, Senator McConnell, who was the minority leader at the time, was criticized for not coming up with a comprehensive plan of his own. We told the President and the congressional Democrats not to hold their breath waiting for ``McConnell Care.'' Don't hold your breath waiting for Senator McConnell to come down to the Senate floor with a wheelbarrow filled with a 2,700-page bill of his own, because that is not how we believe the health care system ought to be fixed. We are policy sceptics. We doubt that anyone in Washington--Republicans, Democrats, Independents-- have the wisdom to fix such a complex system everywhere in America all at once. The wisest course would be to try to fix our health care system step by step in a way that emphasizes more choices and lower costs. This approach to health care reform is not something that Republicans cooked up last month. In fact, if you examine the Congressional Record, you will find that Republican Senators proposed a step-by-step approach to confronting our Nation's health care problems and other challenges 173 different times on the floor of the Senate during the year 2009. Some 173 times we talked about our step-by-step different direction for health care--almost none of which was included in Obamacare because they had the votes and they didn't need our ideas.…”