Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. I understand the Senate is about to vote--I think has begun its vote--on the comprehensive jobs bill, helping to pay for it, so that companies don't ship jobs overseas. So what we're doing now, in view of what seems inevitable in the Senate, is take up one piece of that bill. The SGR provision is in the bill now before the Senate, and that, I'm afraid, will be turned down. And what the fact is, we have to act because patients, military personnel, their physicians, need action. But it's the inaction of Republicans in the other House; it really is bringing us to this point. And despite efforts, and valiant efforts, by the majority leader in the Senate, in the other House, and the Finance chair in the other body, it now seems absolutely certain there won't be a single Republican vote for that comprehensive bill that has this piece in it. What the Democrats in the other body have faced is a Republican phalanx, without a single one on the minority side willing to step up and vote for a bill that this country needs. So I serve notice: We on this side will not give up. A million and half Americans today who are out of work, who are looking for work, have lost their benefits because of the phalanx in the other body. There's reference to turning the corner here. No. The minority in the other House, as was true here, have been turning their backs. So much is at stake.…”