Political Quotes

“Thank you, Mr. President. History was made on the floor of the Senate Chamber today. I don't think it has ever happened before. Think about this: 50 out of 100 Senators came to the floor with the Vice President of the United States and voted to begin debate on a bill they have never seen--a bill they have never seen--because we don't know what the Republicans are going to offer as the alternative to the Affordable Care Act. There have been a lot of different versions. Technically, the one that is before us now is the version that passed the House of Representatives, but I think the Republican leader, Senator McConnell, has known from the beginning that has no chance whatsoever. So many Republicans have taken a look at what the House passed and said: We can't vote for that. You have to give us something different. The problem the Senate Republicans ran into is that they couldn't come up with anything better. They tried. They wrote several different versions, and every time they would write a version of the new Affordable Care Act, it got worse for the American people, and here is what I mean. Under one proposal for the Republicans--not the one before us, but the Senate Republicans--1 million people in my home State of Illinois would have lost their health insurance.…”