Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman. I am going to finish up because we have other Members who want to speak on this really important issue. I want to say in closing, today I began with a story of a young woman who is very close to me. Her name is Annie. She is such a delight. Well, in the spring she was diagnosed with leukemia. She will be 28 years old in February. When she was diagnosed, she had health insurance; but what she realized and her family realized right away was very quickly, as she was approaching trying to get a bone marrow transplant and all of the attendant costs that are associated with that, that without the change that we made in the health care law, maybe her parents would have to give up their retirement fund; maybe they would have to sacrifice their home because they wanted to save their daughters's life because she would have bumped up against those lifetime limits. And so what we did in the 111th Congress in passing a health care law is we said to young people like 28-year-old Annie that we are committed to making sure that she has the ability to take care of her health and to save her life. That is what this is about. It is about real people. It is about their lives, and it is about our obligation that we have to one another. I thank the gentleman for organizing this Special Order this evening.”