Alan Grayson

The effect of this will set us back as a country. That's why I'm disgusted by it.

Why is it that the right wing is so preoccupied with denying people health? Why is that?

What he's doing clearly is a violation of the ethics rules that you cited earlier, the Hippocratic oath, the rules of the AMA. And it's at the expense of his patients and care.

What he's doing is no different from saying, 'I will not treat a black person. I will not treat a Catholic.'

It is a clear violation of ethics, and it's a particularly ugly one. Why is it that the right wing is so preoccupied with denying people health? Why is that?

In fact, where he lives in Mount Dora which is in my district many, many of the Democrats who live in Mount Dora happen to be African-Americans. So by saying that he will not treat somebody who supported Obama, he's saying that he's not…

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wouldn't we be better off if we gave the same amount of money to good banks, banks that were functioning well?

How do we get to a point where a good bank has a bad asset?

So why is it that we do something like enable banks to absorb losses from bad assets in this program?

Well, the Constitution says, 'No money shall be drawn from the Treasury but in consequence of appropriations made by law.'

Is it safe to say that nobody in 1913 contemplated that your small little group of people would decide to hand out half a trillion dollars to foreigners?

Seriously, wouldn't it have been better to extend that kind of credit to Americans rather than New Zealanders?

Congress shouldn't dictate to the Puerto Rican people what is best for them; the people themselves must be allowed to decide their fate.

This is deeply, deeply unfair. Whether Puerto Ricans decide in favor of statehood or not, there is an existing inequality that needs to be addressed.

If Puerto Rico were a state, their people could help to choose our President. Now they cannot.

If Puerto Rico were a state, it would have six representatives in Congress instead of only one who cannot be the deciding vote on the Floor of the House.

We owe it to them to let them make their choice. This is what democracy means.

Under this legislation, voters will be asked by Congress whether they wish to maintain Puerto Rico's present form.

Though its residents are American citizens, the island is not a state and its residents have no equal voting representation in Congress.

The people of Puerto Rico deserve no less.

Residents of Puerto Rico have laid down their lives in defense of American democratic values for over nine decades.