Political Quotes

“If I might for a moment, Congresswoman Watson-- absolutely. It would seem to be the fundamental compassion of a human being to make sure that their children and the community's children, indeed our Nation's children, have health care. And we should extend that well beyond to all of us. It is not in our interest as human beings who presumably have compassion to leave people without health care. {time} 1400 We are not rushing to judgment here. We have been at this in America for more than a century. And this House has been at it for a year, heavily debated. I was just elected to Congress back in November, came here 3 days later, and voted on a bill that you and others had worked on for the previous 10 months. So here we are with the House having passed its bill, the Senate having passed a bill back Christmas Eve, I think 72 days ago. That bill has been available. It is my understanding that next week we may have an opportunity to vote on the Senate bill and send that to the President and then follow up with corrections to the Senate bill that are desired by both Houses, such things as eliminating that little advantage that was given to Nebraska and other corrections to the bill. So this is not something that is being rushed to judgment. In fact, it has been debated for a century. It has been debated in this House. Back in the Clinton period, there was a major debate going on during that period of time.”