"It is a big issue in Massachusetts, to be very frank, as you might expect."
"Last, Mr. Dellinger, do you agree that Romneycare and Obamacare have the same enforcement mechanism? And if one is a tax, are they both?"
"In the State of Massachusetts, 64 percent of the voters are either Republicans or Independents; and the health care plan in Massachusetts polls north of 70 percent in terms of customer satisfaction."
"So the analogy between what Massachusetts did and there was not this outcry and what the Federal Government may have done and there is an outcry is because of the limited enumerated powers of the Fede..."
"In my district, we had an uncompensated care cost of $50 million last year, and I am told that that, that works out to be about $1,000 per person who buys insurance that they have to pay more."
"Those three groups of people that I mentioned, do you think they are home right now fretting over whether or not this is a tax?"
"I think the Prime Minister probably discovered that the health care system in the U.K. was pretty popular."
"I think you hit some very important points, job training---- Health care. Transportation."
"One of the reasons that data suggests that the Welfare Reform Act of 1996 here worked was in some measure because we added a number of mitigating issues to the overall package, including job training,..."
"Majority leader Cantor and I clearly have different definitions of the word 'fair.'"
"Millions of the working poor will be dropped from the tax rolls altogether and the wealthy will pay their fair share."