Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank Congresswoman Jayapal for her leadership on this Special Order. I think the message is getting through to the American people: 24 million of us are about to lose health care if this legislation goes through. In my home State of Maryland, 375,000 people are estimated to be on the chopping block in terms of their health insurance. In my district, the Eighth Congressional District--Montgomery, Frederick, and Carroll Counties--we could have 75,000 or 80,000 people lose their health care. We were able to cut the uninsured rate in half with passage of the Affordable Care Act 7 years ago, and now they want to turn the clock back and take us in exactly the wrong direction. If a foreign power like Russia, for example, tried to throw 24 million Americans off of their health care, we would consider it an act of sabotage, aggression, and war, but this is something that is happening inside the country. Nobody knows why they want to do that to older people with this age tax, why they want to do it to children, to people who have special health needs, to the sick. It is also getting through that there is going to be $600 billion that travels upwards in America through a tax break to the wealthiest Americans. That is $600 billion that is moving upwards. This is not a healthcare plan, primarily. It is a wealth transfer plan, while we toss millions of our co-citizens to the curbside. Seven years ago, we passed the Affordable Care Act.…”