Political Quotes

“Reclaiming my time, and so we have seen what the data is on survival rates for cancer in the United States versus Canada and Great Britain and one other country. There is another point that has been made, I say it has been made consistently by the President of the United States, it has been made by the Speaker of the House, and that is this point that there is nothing in any bill that is likely to pass the House or the Senate that could become law that doesn't fund abortion or illegals. This is where the argument came in. Madam Speaker, it is a Joe Wilson argument. Well, I will deal first with the issue of illegals. The House version of the bill is looser than the Senate version of the bill. But when the President says we are not going to fund illegals, he is not right on that. The Senate version is a little tighter. But if you go to the language in the Senate bill, it says essentially that it lowers the standards. We had a standard that existed under the Medicaid standards, which is pretty close to the gold standard as far as the Federal Government is concerned, that if an individual were going to sign up for Medicaid, that they would have to prove their citizenship by providing a birth certificate and a couple of supporting documents or a series of naturalization papers that would allow people to sign up and receive Medicaid benefits.”