Political Quotes

“Madam Chair, I yield myself the balance of my time. Madam Chair, I recall back at the beginning of the Obama administration when President Obama said that we are in an economic calamity, an economic mess, and we couldn't fix our economic problems unless we first fixed health care. And so his solution for spending too much money was to spend a lot more money, $2.6 trillion on health care. So if we couldn't first fix the economy unless we first fix health care, let me take that philosophy and turn it this way. We can't fix health care unless we first repeal ObamaCare. That's where this country is today. We can't put the replacement in place, we can't put the fixes in place until we pull this thing out by the roots. And the only way to do this today is to shut off the funding. The repeal is over there in the Senate. The House voted in a strong way to repeal ObamaCare. H.R. 1 is the unfunding of ObamaCare. It is the vehicle to do it. This amendment is one of the vehicles that contributes to that cause. Again, I thank Denny Rehberg and the people that did this work and all those people that worked on this cause. I urge adoption. I yield back the balance of my time. {time} 1140 Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Chairman, the American people want us to focus our time and attention on creating jobs. They want us to turn the economy around. They want us to reduce the deficit.…”