Political Quotes

“I'm so pleased to join you today and to talk about health care. And I feel very personally about health care, as somebody who went for a long time without any health care coverage and worried like Americans do all across this country. They did prior to our really investing in reform for the American people. And so I know that anxiety. And I was thinking about some of our constituents, constituents in Maryland's Fourth Congressional District, and around the country, who, today because of what we did in the Democratic-led Congress in passing landmark health care reform legislation, are better off today. And we haven't even fully implemented the benefits for the American people. I think about a letter that I got from a gentleman who lives in my district in Olney, Maryland, a small town, Olney, Maryland. And he writes to me that his son, Mike, was 25 going on 26, and he could receive health care insurance coverage. When he wasn't able to get it, he needed it and he couldn't get it. And he got a letter from Blue Cross/Blue Shield saying to him that his son could continue to be covered until his 26 birthday. And what he did was he did what a lot of American families do, they're wiping the sweat from their brow because they know that they can now keep their young people on their health care plan until they're 26. I have a 22-year-old. I was feeling exactly the same way.”