Political Quotes

“Make no mistake about it--the effort on the part of Steve King is to defund ObamaCare. This Chamber already passed a bill to repeal ObamaCare, which the American people have asked. This is now an effort to defund ObamaCare. Because as we have seen from the Congressional Research Service, the ingenious nature of the ObamaCare bill was to already put the funding in place so that if the majority lost the gavel, which they did, the new majority would be unable to defund this bill. Speaker Pelosi said it well last year when she said we had to pass the bill to know what is in it. We only found out recently that literally tens of billions of dollars have already been appropriated to fund ObamaCare. It was put in 'mandatory spending,' spending where this Chamber would not have access to be able to defund the bill. If we are unable to defund the bill now, make no mistake, Mr. Chair, this Chamber and the American people will do everything they can to make sure they put into place a new President, a new Senate, and a House that will have the requisite courage to finally defund the government takeover of health care.”