Political Quotes

“my thoughts tonight are with the millions of Americans who will bear the brunt of this shutdown: the families in the path of hurricanes who will go without the services of FEMA, the veterans who will lack many of the helping hands in the VA, the recipients of Social Security who will be unable to verify their cards or perhaps receive payments that they have been denied, and others--millions of other Americans--who unnecessarily will be hurt, perhaps people who depend on the social safety net that we have established and may be torn by this shutdown. And I am thinking about the millions of Americans--about 24 million in total, 139,000 in Connecticut alone--who will be notified that they can buy health insurance as a result of open enrollment, but what they lack in information is whether or not that health insurance will be affordable because they have no way of knowing whether it will extend beyond the end of the year, those subsidies that are so essential to their affording healthcare. And our Republican colleagues--we just heard the Senator from Kansas say there is no hurry. Well, Americans can't get sick on Donald Trump's timetable. When people are told there is no hurry, if you get sick, for medical care, that sounds cruel because it is cruel. And it is stupid. People who go without health insurance may lack the healthcare that can save costs of preventing more serious illness, and those costs eventually are borne by all of us.…”