Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I thank him for his relentless and persistent leadership in helping America's seniors, today manifested in his support for the SGR and his opposition to this ill-designed approach by the Republicans. Mr. Speaker, today, House Republicans are proving that their obsession with tearing down the Affordable Care Act is blurring their vision and that it has no boundaries. For their 51st vote to repeal or undermine the Affordable Care Act, Republicans are turning their partisanship against the health and security of our Nation's seniors. The House Republican leadership's political games are threatening to derail months of bipartisan, bicameral--House and Senate--progress on a permanent Medicare doc fix, threatening our seniors' ability to see their doctors and get the health care they need. Earlier this week, the AARP, the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, the National Council on Aging, and other key seniors' advocacy groups wrote to congressional leadership to make it clear that the Republicans' actions would ``inject partisan politics into bipartisan legislation,'' and that this ``undermines the months of hard work done by committees, their staffs, and concerned stakeholders.'' The Republicans' approach has been rejected not only by the senior advocacy groups but by providers, doctors, insurers, and seniors.…”