Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I rise today to oppose the Republicans' cynical attempt to replace the health care reform law. Yesterday's decision to repeal the Affordable Care Act was truly damaging to the American people, but today's decision to tout the central reforms of the Affordable Care Act as Republican ideas is simply baffling. If the provisions in H. Res. 9 were really the Republicans' priorities, they would leave the Affordable Care Act intact because all of these provisions exist in the current law. If we all agree on the importance of keeping young adults on their parents' insurance, prohibiting insurance companies from dropping coverage for the sick and strengthening Medicare, then this spectacle is a colossal waste of time that we don't have. If Republicans really want to guarantee these consumer protections to the American people, they would not stage partisan antics with this kind of resolution. Even when Republicans had control of the entire government for 6 years, they did nothing to reform our Nation's health care system. And during that time, premiums skyrocketed, the number of uninsured Americans grew to 47 million, and those with insurance saw their benefits decimated. Of course, it would have been great to have the Republicans as willing partners during the last 2 years as we worked hard to pass the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Unfortunately, they insisted on being the Party of No even as we incorporated so many of their party's ideas into the law.…”