Political Quotes

“last week, on a bipartisan basis, the Senate rejected a bill that would have repealed the Affordable Care Act. This should be a turning point, not just in our healthcare debate but in the way that we move forward in the Senate. The speech given by Senator McCain when he returned to the Senate Chamber last week lasted about 15 minutes, and, in that short period of time, the senior Senator from Arizona reminded us of our historic responsibility here in the Senate and the role that we play under our Constitution as an independent branch of government, and he then exhorted us to put away the partisanship and the gamesmanship and move to what we would call regular order in the Senate: Send a bill to a committee, have the committee consider the bill, bring in experts, go through an amendment process, report it to the floor, and have another amendment process hoping that the collective wisdom of the committee and the body will result in a work product that actually achieves the goal that we set out to achieve. That is the regular order. That is what John McCain asked us to get back to, and now we have that chance. On a bipartisan basis, I believe the Senate must come together and work on solutions to improve our healthcare system. First, we have to stabilize it.…”