"The Republicans are so fixated on hating this law and they want to repeal it. They don't even want to consider helping make it work."
"I hope this hearing will be serious, evenhanded inquiry, but I fear that some of my Republican colleagues may exaggerate security concerns to stoke public fear."
"The last 6 weeks have been difficult ones for supporters of the Affordable Care Act."
"No other industrial country allows such a thing to happen, but that is what Republicans who have opposed this law would have us return to."
"I am pleased we are holding this oversight hearing on the legislation that we passed last year on a bipartisan basis."
"I called a previous hearing of the committee a monkey court. I will call this the monkey wrench."
"I don't believe that there is any interest on the part of the Republicans to fix any of the problems that are occurring with the rollout of the Affordable Care Act."
"The Upton bill is the monkey wrench that they are trying to throw in to basically destroy Obamacare."
"Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman."
"They didn't come forward with any proposal at all. They even said they want to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it."
"The Republicans oppose this law, they fought it every step of the way, they thought that the Court would throw it out."