Political Quotes

“I did not know that I would follow the distinguished majority leader. I just want to say, and I mostly want to talk about Plan C, but for him or anybody else to come on the floor and say that the President hasn't proposed spending cuts isn't true, and it undercuts the necessary level of trust to find common ground. That kind of a statement should not be made. I sat in the Rules Committee for 3 hours and participated for 2 hours last night. There was no reference to Plan C, and it came up just a few minutes secretly before midnight. The purpose of Plan C is to try to get votes for Plan B within the Republican Conference. What it does is to undermine the Affordable Care Act by eliminating the true-up protections, and the joint task committee says it would result in the loss of health insurance coverage for 420,000 people. It would also repeal the Social Services Block Grant which provides services for millions of Americans. It wasn't many years ago when Chairman Camp wrote: SSBG has been a key source of flexible funding for critical social services. So now in a desperate effort to find votes for Plan B, you turn your back on that. Finally, it would harm millions of low-income families and their kids. The estimate is it would affect 1 million families and more than 3 million kids. Searching for votes for Plan B with that kind of an approach, I think, is abominable.”