Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding to me. Madam Speaker, I want to say to my friend from Vermont, a member of my committee, that this is not the way to pass laws. This is not the way to correct problems. Problems should be worked out through narrow fixes in a public setting. This is a bill for an insurance company that is threatening to fire people in Delaware and a little small part of California, so that insurance company is saying: well, we are going to fire these people unless you correct our problem. The Republicans will not correct their problem. They want to put a big hole in the Affordable Care Act. Well, you can believe the Senate may fix it, but the suspension calendar should not be used for bills that have never been considered in an open hearing and that cannot be amended on the floor of the House. This bill goes far beyond a narrow, sensible fix. It says that Americans who are out of this country for a matter of weeks can be sold policies with harsh annual limits on their coverage, no minimum quality standards, and it says the families of these Americans--who may not even be overseas, but be living here--will get a plan that would be of lower quality than other Americans, even though they live here 365 days of the year. This bill's supporters say these expatriate plans are of very high quality, but the insurers and Republicans refuse to accept a bill that subjects the plan even to the most basic standards of quality and affordability. Why?…”