Political Quotes

“Madam President, I want to talk a little bit about the letters I have received and the messages we have received in the office in the last week regarding the changes we see going on in health care. There was quite a bit of discussion last week about how health care impacts the workplace, and I think a lot of misinformation is out. The Congressional Budget Office projection, as some people have alleged, does not say that 2 million more people are going to have part-time jobs. It says the equivalent job loss because of the Affordable Health Care Act is the equivalent of 2.3 million people losing full-time jobs. That may mean that 10 million people who otherwise would have had full- time jobs have part-time jobs. The other thing is, it is three times as big as the number that was on the table when people voted for the Affordable Care Act. At that time, the Congressional Budget Office said: If this law passes, there will be 800,000 fewer jobs than if this law does not pass. The collective impact on the economy is 800,000 fewer jobs. Last week they said there would be 2.3 million fewer jobs--roughly three times the amount that the earlier estimate was. Similar to so many other estimates in this law, the reality of the law turns out to be different than the estimates. Surely that was an estimate that nobody wanted. I cannot imagine anybody who voted for this bill--and I did not vote for it--but I cannot imagine anybody who voted for this bill thought: That is a really great thing.…”