Political Quotes

“Madam Chair, I reserve the balance of my time. Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Chair, let me just repeat a statistic. Because of the Affordable Care Act, more than 20 million people gained health insurance, many for the first time in their lives, and the uninsured rate declined from a high of 18 percent before the Affordable Care Act to a low of less than 11 percent. Now, keep in mind, from the outset of the Trump administration, the effort was to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. I don't know the umpteen times that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle tried to repeal the Affordable Care Act. {time} 2115 They could never find a way to replace it. Ultimately, they failed legislatively to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. So, what have they done subsequently? They move through the appropriations bills, and they cut back. They work to do away with the cost-sharing subsidies for the insurance companies, which drives the cost up. They say ``no'' to the navigators to help people go through the system and understand insurance. I will bet everyone in this institution has somebody who explains an insurance policy to them. So, therefore, I will just finish this and say: Let's defeat this amendment because it is just one more attempt to sabotage the Affordable Care Act. Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.”