Political Quotes

“over the last 10 days, I have conducted emergency field hearings, giving my constituents in Connecticut an opportunity to be heard, a chance for their voices and faces to be part of considering the Republican healthcare or really, more accurately, wealth care bill. Indeed, that label or characterization of the bill came from one my constituents who said: This plan is not healthcare, it is wealth care because it produces a massive transfer of wealth from the poor and middle-class Americans, whose healthcare would be deeply harmed, to the richest Americans, who would enjoy the benefits of hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts. That kind of voice and criticism deserves to be heard here. Yet my Republican colleagues and their leadership have gone from total secrecy to total chaos. They are in chaos because they have refused to heed the voices and faces of ordinary, average working people--middle-class people, the most vulnerable people--who would be deeply harmed by this proposal. One woman at one of my hearings in Connecticut, knowing what would happen under this bill, said to me: Do the right thing. Save the Affordable Care Act and save our lives. She was not exaggerating when she said lives are at stake. She is right.…”