Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding and for his leadership on healthcare. First of all, Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this resolution, which has nothing to do with actually helping improve healthcare, the costs, especially, that so many millions of people are enduring, because the Affordable Care Act is anything but affordable. Mr. Speaker, let's keep in mind what this resolution is about. It is not about changing any healthcare policy. It doesn't do that. It has been made clear. It is attempting just to try to take cheap shots at the President while diverting attention away from what this lawsuit that you see moving through the courts is really all about. Mr. Speaker, if the healthcare law that my friends on the other side of the aisle rushed through Congress and passed is held unconstitutional, they have nobody to blame but themselves. Let's keep in mind--and they want you to forget this, Mr. Speaker--and let's go back to those days when they rammed this bill through and the infamous statement: You have to pass the bill to find out what is in it. Nobody read that bill who voted for it. We said back then that it was unconstitutional. And, oh, by the way, not only was it that, but it has actually led to dramatic increases in cost for families. So someone with a preexisting condition--whom we want to protect, by the way, Mr. Speaker. But we don't just want to protect the fact that they shouldn't be able to have costs go up.…”