Political Quotes

“to sum up on where we stand with respect to the Coats-Snowe amendment, first of all, I remind this body what we are dealing with here. This amendment modifies an underlying amendment, and that underlying amendment would allow Federal funds to go to an unaccredited institution. That is what I wanted to prevent. That is the issue. That is what we are modifying through this compromise amendment, so that does not happen. Who supports this amendment? I think that is important since we are naming groups. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, which is the entity that establishes the one set of standards in America for the medical institutions; the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists--it is very important because we are talking about ob-gyn programs, and the medical association is made up of the profession of physicians. That is who supports this amendment. They say it is acceptable. They saw what I saw. What were the choices? What we will be facing here potentially is a major risk and threat to women's health.”