Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I thank the chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on HHS, Congressman Rehberg, for yielding. I want to declare my support for this amendment, and I think he is happy if I refer to it as the Rehberg amendment. I also want to thank Denny Rehberg for the work that he has done on this. America will never know, Mr. Chairman, how much work went into crafting this amendment to get this fix that does a little bit to take us down the road. And, boy, it is important to me to see $100 million cut out of the resources that would be used to implement ObamaCare. Mr. Chairman, I am also very confident in declaring it to be ObamaCare. I listened to President Obama address it as ObamaCare on February 25 of last year at the Blair House during the health care summit. I thought that was the source of the moniker ObamaCare, was the President himself, and if anyone thinks otherwise, I think they should look back and check the record. ObamaCare is this: It's not $1 trillion in deficit over 20 years if we don't go through with this atrocity; it's $2.6 trillion in spending in the first full decade, according to the chairman of the Budget Committee, Paul Ryan--$2.6 trillion in spending. We are here in this CR to cut spending. We know that we have to go into a national era of austerity because of the overspending that has taken place over the last 4 years in particular and the last 2 years in a hugely significant way.…”