Political Quotes

“I stand somewhat chagrined that we bring this bill to the floor of this great House, the floor that deliberates on the issues that take care of the needs of people, but this bill comes under a charade, a charade that we are going to help the poorest and most disadvantaged children. The SCHIP program that we put in place 10 years ago started to do that, and we can't expand that, but this bill covers people up to four times of poverty. That is a family of four earning $82,000 a year. What it does is say if you go out into the private sector and you continue to buy health care for you and your family, you're going to pay a tax, and that tax will fund other people, not just children, but expand the amount of adults covered by SCHIP, which is supposed to be for children. In the State of Illinois, my State, 60 percent of the people on SCHIP are adults, not children; 40 percent are covered by children. If we want to cover children, let's change it so we cover children. This bill doesn't do that. This bill expands what we do for adults, adults that should be able to be paying their own way in American society. What this bill does is open the doors for all other types of people to be able to be involved in government-paid health care, and that's the bottom line. It's government-paid health care. It's Hillary care all over again.”