Political Quotes

“Thank you. Mr. Chairman, I rise today to oppose the Republicans' latest cynical and callous attempts to derail health care reform, and I think it's quite interesting that the gentleman from Montana would be dismissive of the issue of deficit reduction and that somehow that's now labeled a distraction. I think that adding $5.5 billion to the deficit when we should be going in the opposite direction is far more than a distraction. It's a moral imperative that we not do that. In the past 6 weeks, we have seen the true face of the Republicans' legislative agenda. Rather than work to create jobs and improve our economy, they have focused on baseless attacks on American families. With their repeal and replace bills, they have demonstrated that they don't mind if insurance companies drop patients as soon as they get sick, or that families wouldn't be able to save thousands of dollars by keeping young adult children on their family plan. And with this pernicious amendment, we now see their outrageous attempts to strip funding from the implementation of the health care law. Let's be clear: Our colleagues across the aisle want to yank funding from a law that is already helping millions of Americans. This amendment would seize funding from the agencies and workers who have already been tasked with implementing the most essential tenets of the Affordable Care Act, provisions which are already making a world of difference in millions of lives.…”