Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Chairman, I really take issue with the gentleman that declared this to be nonsense. This is not nonsense. This is very, very serious business. This is the largest taking of American liberty in the history of this country. And the shenanigans that went on to put this bill in place, you could not have sent this bill out on the floor of the 111th Congress and had it pass if it were all packaged up together in one big stack. It was two pieces of bills. And we listened to Dr. Burgess earlier about all of the things that took place to represent this bill in one place or another, to put it together, including a promise of an executive order that was designed to trump the very Congress itself. And here we are, with the first opportunity to put the brakes on ObamaCare--yes, we've passed the repeal, H.R. 2. This is H.R. 1. It's here because it's more important to the Speaker than H.R. 2. And that means that we must shut off this funding to ObamaCare. This CRS report, $105 billion automatically appropriated over a 10- year period of time that goes on in perpetuity, sending the tentacles of this malignant tumor down. It is metastasizing as we speak, and American liberty is being strangled off by ObamaCare. This amendment is the amendment that shuts all of the funding within the CR. It must be passed by this Congress to keep faith with the American people. I yield back the balance of my time. Ms. DeLAURO.…”