Political Quotes

“I will tell my friends, I have only had a voting card in this institution for 5\1/2\ years, but I have learned enough in those 5\1/2\ years to know that we can't consider every issue every day. The gentlewoman from Connecticut just had her State ObamaCare exchange taken over by Federal regulators this week because it is so financially unstable. It was the 14th of 23 of these exchanges that have failed in the intervening year. Not failed the American taxpayer, though they have, but failed the American citizens who were forced into them. I will wait to hear if anybody is going to come to the floor today to wonder why it is we are not focused on abolishing those punitive actions, if we are going to have anybody come to the floor today and ask what we are going to do for those 400,000 people in Connecticut who we forced into an exchange that is now in receivership. We can't do every issue every day. I hope we will get to these issues as well, Mr. Speaker. But let's not minimize what this bill is today. I am not going to characterize anyone's motives, Mr. Speaker, but the reason this bill was necessary to begin with is because the Federal labor unions that represent Federal Government employees were standing between us and some serious national security concerns. Now, that hasn't been raised yet. But I want to make sure that if we are going to go down some rabbit holes, that we try to come back to why this is so important.…”