Political Quotes

“I rise to discuss the spending bill, which we are about to vote on, which is going to increase our deficit by almost a fourth of a trillion dollars over 10 years and of which I think I might be the first speaker. We are going to vote on this. We got it yesterday--Monday, maybe--and we are going to vote on it tomorrow. I smile because this is supposed to be the world's greatest deliberative body, and we have not deliberated one bit on far-ranging policies. Now, by the why, the mess is kind of bipartisan. We can spread the blame around. Let me bring up the heart of it. When ObamaCare passed, President Obama famously said it would not increase the deficit by one dime. That is gone. I think that replaces ``you can keep your doctor if you want to'' as the greatest lie. What we did today is to repeal about $400 billion in payments to pay for all the healthcare that is going out. It is kind of a joke on Republicans. We are getting ObamaCare, but we are not paying for it. On the other hand, as I will explain in a second, it may ultimately be a joke on Democrats. Now, this concerns me because we didn't have a committee hearing on it, and we haven't had a floor debate, but we just committed that for almost $400 billion that have been used to fund Medicaid expansion, people getting subsidies for their health insurance, and many other things, we just went poof, and it is gone.…”