Political Quotes

“we are here at a historic moment, and we listened to a historic speech just within the last 48 hours from our colleague, Senator John McCain. All of us welcomed him back and were inspired and overjoyed by his return and then by his speech asking that we go back to the regular order, that we have committee consideration of a bill, with hearings and markup and the democratic process really working. What threatens us tonight is the democratic process being brought to new lows. If this bill is passed with the assurance that it won't go to conference--and there are conservatives, and I could quote them. Senator Lindsey Graham said earlier today: There's increasing concern on my part and others that what the House will do is take whatever we pass--the so called ``skinny bill''--not take it to conference, go directly to the House floor, vote on it, and that goes to the President's desk with the argument, ``This is better than doing nothing.'' Here's my response. The ``skinny bill'' as policy is a disaster. The ``skinny bill'' as a replacement for Obamacare is a fraud. The ``skinny bill'' is a vehicle to get in conference to find a replacement. It is not a replacement in and of itself.…”