Political Quotes

“We are at a critical point today for 44 million Medicare beneficiaries--seniors, people with disabilities--and the physicians, the health care providers, who serve them. I am very hopeful we are not going to see this number go up--the number of filibusters that have been done on the other side of the aisle. I am very hopeful this number is not going to go from 78 to 79 over the Medicare legislation that is in front of us. We have already seen a filibuster in a successful effort to stop the Medicare bill that would make sure that the 10-percent cut for physicians does not take place and that other preventative and other access issues are addressed. That is already part of these 78 filibusters. We have already seen the Medicare bill filibustered.”