Political Quotes

“I wish to speak on amendment No. 4023, a very important amendment that affects over 200,000 people in my State. This is a bipartisan amendment sponsored by Senator Klobuchar, who has taken a very impressive lead, as well as Senator Coleman. This bipartisan amendment is to stand up for constituents all over the United States of America who are severely disabled and who are about to lose their case managers. Thousands and thousands and thousands of people--severely handicapped or disabled, both children and adults--are about to lose either their social workers or their nurses because of a new, harsh, punitive rule put out by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare. The amendment does the same thing as Senate Bill 2578 that is sponsored by the Senators from Minnesota and myself and 17 others and would simply do this: It would stop the CMS from implementing the new rule by delaying its implementation until April 2009, when we have a new President and a new attitude.”