Political Quotes

“I join my colleague from Mississippi. I would note that is the case, and why is it the Speaker is saying we have to pass the bill to see what is in it? They are going to hold it back until they break enough arms to get a majority vote and then pop it out and then there will be an hour's debate on one-sixth of the economy being changed. We saw that same procedure when Majority Leader Reid was crafting this bill behind closed doors and nobody knew what was in the bill and then popped it out when you have the deal, when you made enough deals, broken enough arms, then we can pass this. That is no way to have a process like this. That is no way to effect this big a piece of the economy that touches every American's life in the process. I urge the Speaker not to do something like this. Listen to the American public and follow normal order. They could send this back to committee, to the Finance and the HELP Committees, work a bipartisan agreement on this, say we have to hit this number or that, let's do an incremental approach and come out with a bill that would have 75 votes. That is doable. We put forward a whole bunch of ideas at the Blair House. Here are different things we would support. Put out a long day of discussion. That is the normal order that produces good legislation that will stand the test of time. This will not stand the test of time, and it is going to bankrupt the country.”