Political Quotes

“I applaud Chairman Brady's leadership on this issue. He has been instrumental in getting us to this point. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this bill after 3 long years of working on the policy to actually get to a bipartisan, bicameral agreement on policy and divided government. It has not been easy, but we have managed to get an agreement on a policy to repeal automatic annual cuts to physicians. A 24 percent cut in just a matter of weeks is facing doctors under this flawed formula. Now, Congress first promised to repeal this formula more than a decade ago. Democrats repeated the promise when we were debating ObamaCare. They failed to put it in there. They failed to address it in ObamaCare. The passage of this important bipartisan legislation would finally honor that promise, that of protecting seniors' access to doctors. A doctor-patient relationship is built on trust and high quality. It ensures quality measures going forward, and it creates certainty for physicians and seniors. I want to point out something because our friends have not given the full story here. We have agreed on the policy, but we have a problem in coming up with the pay-fors. It is a tough conversation, but the talks have broken down in a divided government. Senate leadership has refused to negotiate in good faith and to discuss responsible ways to pay for the bill's $138 billion price tag. We are going to pass this bill to get those discussions started.…”