Political Quotes

“Well, I want to thank my colleague from Missouri for hosting this and my other colleagues who are expressing leadership and really trying to make this last stand because we are at the last stand for health care, as the President continues to try to ram down the throats of the American people this government takeover. And here we are on the House floor as Speaker Pelosi is trying in the next week, possibly, to have a vote here on the House floor on a bill that the American people have said in every way possible that they don't want. You had the elections, of course, in Virginia and New Jersey; and then you had the election in Massachusetts, of all places, where Scott Brown said, I'll be the 41st vote against health care, and he won. And even after that, this tone-deaf liberal leadership here in Congress is saying that they're going to continue to try to ram down this government takeover. What you're pointing out and my colleagues are pointing out are some incredibly important facts that I think the American people themselves have been seeing as they've been reading the bill, and this latest version is over 2,400 pages long. But there's a couple of points in there, and I want to touch on one of them, and I know you have touched on a few others. Clearly there is over $500 billion in new taxes in this bill. There is over $500 billion in cuts to Medicare in this bill, things that would devastate medical care in this country as people know and enjoy it.…”