Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 15 seconds. I say to my colleague that what you are doing, essentially, is undercutting bipartisanship with pure partisan politics. Pointing to the Senate is pure mythology. I now yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Washington (Mr. McDermott), the ranking member on the Health Subcommittee. (Mr. McDERMOTT asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.) Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, this 51st attempt to repeal the ACA by stopping the individual mandate is part of the long-term propaganda campaign done by the Republicans to destroy the health care plan that the President put together. They know that we agree on the policy--everybody here agrees on the policy--but they put a poison pill in it. They knew that this amendment of how to pay for it--that is, by delaying the mandate--would kill any Democratic support in the House. They have no intention of passing this bill. This bill is directed at the propaganda campaign to the people at Koch Brothers and at FOX News so that anybody who is watching this will get the idea that somehow it is a bad bill. The fact is that people are benefiting every single day. The AARP and the American Medical Association have denounced this bill because they want the SGR--the doctors' payment reform--to go through, and they know that the Republicans have designed this to fail.…”