Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, the gentleman used the term ``fraud.'' It is ironic that ObamaCare itself has been so misrepresented to the American people that, for the top three things that were stated by those who advocated for ObamaCare--if you like your policy, you can keep it; if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, and, by the way, we are going to save these families $2,500 a year. There is not a single family in America that that promise has been kept for, and yet I hear the word ``fraud'' from the other side of the aisle. It is not very far down to Mount Vernon where, at least by legend, it is alleged that George Washington was asked who chopped down the cherry tree. He said: I cannot tell a lie. I chopped down the cherry tree. Well, calling the Affordable Care Act the ``Affordable Care Act'' is not true. George Washington could not utter these words. He might be able to say the ``Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,'' because that is technically the name for it, but to utter those words and try to tell the American people it is affordable by anybody is not true, and I don't think George Washington could state that. So we are watching here as people have jobs where they get paid overtime, 56 hours a week, 45 hours a week. They are getting paid time- and-a-half over 40 hours because that is the standard workweek, and now we see ObamaCare dropped it down to 30.…”