Political Quotes

“I am very sorry to have to say this, but the amendment that Senator Kennedy has just proposed is not our amendment. I want to be very clear about what our amendment does. The amendment that Senator Kennedy has been talking about was part of last year's bill. When Senator Nelson came forward this year, he said: Let's try to come up with something new. We did that. So the language we have before us today is not the language to which Senator Kennedy has been referring. When he talks about the Signet language and the other plan language, that would be absolutely prohibited by what we are talking about here. That was last year. We would absolutely prohibit that. When he talks about the plans choosing from among a range of definitions that could include cost effective, that would be absolutely prohibited under our language. That was last year. Let me again restate what we did this year.”