Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding to me. Mr. Speaker, my colleagues, this is a bill that could have been worked out. This is a bill that could have accomplished the purpose that I know that our colleague from Delaware wants to see put into place, and I applaud him for working hard to improve the bill under very difficult circumstances. In trying to allow the American insurance companies to sell policies to expats, we could craft a bill that is narrow, but we are not getting cooperation to get to that point. The reason we are not getting cooperation is we are told we must pass a bill right away. Well, we were told that 2 weeks ago when we had the bill under suspension, and we couldn't consider any amendments under suspension. Now we have the bill under a rule. Oh, and the rule provides for no amendments either. There is a bill to be crafted, but this bill before us does not accomplish the goal in a way that really doesn't hurt some people's insurance coverage. There are still two major problems with the legislation before us today. First, it does not have enough safeguards to guarantee that these expatriate plans are high quality, and the second issue is the bill creates problems for millions of other people who are legal permanent residents here in the United States and others working in this country who are currently protected by the Affordable Care Act. On the first issue, the insurers tell us that their expatriate plans are going to be extremely generous.…”