Political Quotes

“Mr. President, today we stand at the precipice of opportunity. Culminating a decade of work, we have before us legislation that will forever change the face of Medicare, providing every senior in America with a prescription drug benefit under the Medicare Program that will experience the largest expansion in its 38-year history. We would not have arrived at this day without the exceptional commitment by Finance Committee Chairman Grassley to advance this issue and to meld the considerable policy and political differences that have marked the development of this legislation. His efforts were nothing short of Herculean from the outset and guided us through a very challenging and contentious conference committee over the last 4 months. He, as well as Ranking Member Baucus, have remained committed to the bipartisan principles that forged the Senate legislation which garnered the support of 16 members of the Senate Finance Committee, as well as in the overall passage of the legislation last June of 76 Members of the full Senate.”