Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I intend to offer a motion to commit the reconciliation bill to the Finance Committee with instructions to ensure the bill includes reforms to our healthcare system that lower healthcare costs and improve health outcomes. I am offering this motion because the healthcare bills before us make devastating changes to our country's healthcare system that endanger Americans' access to healthcare and raise healthcare costs for all Americans, but contains no commonsense reforms to our healthcare system that drive down underlying healthcare costs and improves health outcomes. Millions of Americans wrestle with unaffordable healthcare costs and our fee-for-service healthcare system remains inefficient and wasteful. Instead of passing the buck to States and reducing access to healthcare for low- and middle-income Americans, we should be focusing on reforms that can improve the healthcare system and lower healthcare costs for all Americans. The following Senators support my motion to commit: Senators Coons and Shaheen. I ask unanimous consent that the full text of my motion to commit be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: Motion to Commit With Instructions Mr. Carper moves to commit the bill H.R.…”