Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, on so many of those bills that the gentleman mentioned, the gentleman failed to point out the poison pills that were attached to those bills to ensure that they went out in a partisan way. Case in point is the bill the gentleman mentioned last night. I was there in the Energy and Commerce Committee. Again, you take a package of bills--here are two different alternatives. People wonder why Congress can't get things done. You had a package of bills to lower drug prices that every Republican and every Democrat on the committee voted for, worked for months to put together--good work, sincere, dedicated work by the people on the committee of jurisdiction--passed out of committee unanimously to lower drug prices. Then, last night, you saw a package of bills on drug prices that resulted, ultimately, in socialist-style price-setting, and it went out on a party-line vote. Not one Republican voted for it. If you can imagine, in divided government--which we are, Democratic House, Republican Senate with a 60-vote requirement, and a Republican President. If you want to pound on a table and make statements, you can send out party-line vote after party-line vote and say they are over there in the Senate, because you know, just as well as everyone else knows, those bills won't become law.…”