Political Quotes

“the Senate has spent a great deal of time over the last 6 or 7 months on healthcare in America. For years after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the Republican Party--the House and Senate--has called for repeal of the bill. Yet, when the time came, with the majority of Republicans in the House and the Senate and, of course, a Republican President, and the task was immediately before them, they faltered because they didn't have a replacement. They didn't have something to propose that was better. As a consequence, their efforts stopped short--one vote short--on the floor of the Senate several weeks ago. We still face some significant challenges. Some of those are very immediate. Before the end of September, we will face the prospect of needing to reauthorize the Children's Health Insurance Program, known as CHIP. This program provides health insurance coverage for more than 9 million children and pregnant women across the country--350,000 in my State. This vital program, the CHIP program, has had two decades of broad bipartisan support, and it is going to expire in 12 days. The good news is that the Finance Committee chairman, Orrin Hatch of Utah, and his ranking member, Ron Wyden of Oregon, have reached a bipartisan agreement on a 5-year reauthorization of the CHIP program.…”