Political Quotes

“Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to the Republican budget. This budget makes the wrong choices. We must enact a plan to steadily reduce our deficits and debts, but we must do so in a responsible way. This Republican budget is irresponsible. It provides tax breaks to millionaires, while ending the Medicare guarantee and shifting more costs to seniors. It slashes health insurance for the working disabled, gutting the program that provides the care they need to stay working. It shifts hundreds of billions in costs on to the States--the same States that are struggling to balance their budgets. It transfers tens of billions in health care costs on to the backs of the frail elderly in nursing homes and parents with children. And it takes away the guarantee of affordable health coverage--a right that everyone should enjoy--and leaves millions more uninsured. My Republican colleagues fail to understand that simply cutting the Federal commitment to health care, as they propose, doesn't make the need go away--it just shifts the problem somewhere else. Rather than responsibly address the issue of rising health care costs as the Democrats did in the Affordable Care Act--House Republicans would repeal that bill and leave American families without any protections from insurance company abuses. The Republican budget doesn't fix our health care problems. To pay for tax breaks for millionaires, it cuts hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicare and Medicaid and shifts costs to seniors . .…”