Political Quotes

“Why are we here today in the middle of the government shutdown? The answer, frankly, is that the Senate refuses to come to the table to negotiate. The House has passed four different measures that would have kept the government open. The Senate has ignored them all. Before the government shut down, the House passed a bill which would keep the government open and defund the President's health care law. Well, it is probable that the Senate wasn't going to support that, but I was thinking at least we would be able to get documentation as to whether there would be some Democrat support for that. That having failed, we passed a second measure to keep the government open and simply delay the President's health care law by 1 year. After all, the President himself had delayed portions of the law. Obviously, that didn't play with the Senate. So then we passed another piece of legislation which would have funded the government and would have funded the President's health care law, but simply would have made the law fairer for all Americans. The President changed the law by executive order--a procedure of questionable legality--but he changed the law, giving large employers a 1-year delay in the employer mandate. In other words, employers were required to offer insurance or face a fine. The President, by executive order, changed the law to delay that for 1 year.…”