Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman from Louisiana for his work and for yielding me time. I want to also thank the gentleman from Montana, who has drilled into this deeply, and it is a big reason why we are able to be here today. I appreciate his representation of seniors in Montana as I may well have the privilege of representing the most senior congressional district in all of America. I've watched what has happened not just with Medicare but with ObamaCare entirely, and when I hear the comments about the whims of the health insurance industry, that may well have been what helped write this bill in the first place--large health insurance companies. Yet we had 1,300 of them when we started this process over a year ago, and we have fewer today. {time} 1520 We had 100,000 possible health insurance policy varieties. We have fewer today. We are looking at $2.6 trillion in outlays over ObamaCare for the first full decade of its implementation, and we have seen two Federal courts rule ObamaCare unconstitutional. We have uncovered what I think were intentionally hard-to-find numbers that were hidden in the automatic appropriations of ObamaCare to the tune of $105.5 billion to be laid out. We are sitting right now on top of $23.6 billion that is being used intensively to implement ObamaCare, all the while we expect, and the President surely must expect, the Supreme Court will rule it unconstitutional. ObamaCare has been rejected by the American people.…”