Political Quotes

“And yet they have a great opportunity. I want to commend those valiant Republicans who have stood up to their leadership. I will not use the Member's name who said, I have to choose between my leadership and the senior citizens that I represent. We have seen this happen before. We saw it with campaign finance reform. I saw a member of my delegation, the gentleman from Connecticut (Mr. Shays), stand up along with many Republicans on that side and do the right thing in terms of campaign finance reform. We saw the same thing in the Patients' Bill of Rights. We saw the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Ganske) stand up and do the right thing, and the Patients' Bill of Rights was achieved. We have an opportunity here if we come together and are able to examine these various proposals side by side and then vote on them. I believe in my heart of hearts, and I have no illusions that many people around the country are listening to the dialogue between the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Pallone) and myself, but for those that are and can still contact and call people in their respective States to tell them just how important this is, to have a vote, to deny people to be able to have an amendment on pricing in the United States Congress just is so contrary to everything that we stand for.”