Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I wish to thank Senator Cassidy and Senator Alexander for being such amazing partners in bringing this legislation from its introduction last summer to the floor of the House and soon to the floor of the Senate. I will say a little bit more about them and their teams, but it really has been a pleasure. I have learned a lot, especially from Senator Alexander, about how to overcome some tough obstacles and pitfalls while bringing something this big and this meaningful through the process. I accept the premise that there is something fundamentally broken about the way things work here in Washington, DC. Cable news fame and getting ready for the next election all matter way too much here, and it means that there are a lot of big issues, like immigration reform and entitlement reform and infrastructure, that don't get done because politics get in the way. But there are, frankly, a lot more breakthroughs that happen here than most Americans know about, and a lot of them happen on the HELP Committee. There are, more often than one would think, moments where politics get put to the side or temporarily squeezed out of the way and something really important happens here. This is one of those moments. Senator Cassidy really explained the contours of this bill very well. So I want to provide just a little bit of the context for it.…”