John Larson actually said...

"So raise your hand if you think the individual mandate helps lower income Americans?"

"But you cannot convince me that that mandate was helping lower income Americans, because those same lower income Americans talked about, to me at home, how they couldn't afford the plan and they could..."

"This is what the American people want. They are tired of the tastes-great-less-filling arguments and everybody going to their respective corners and nothing getting done."

"What a great moment to say we were in Congress when it wasn't about Democrats or Republicans, it was about moving the nation forward and uplifting all of its people."