Roy Blunt: “What we have a chance to do here today is to end 6 years of gridlock, 6 years of striving for a solution that has been…”

“What we have a chance to do here today is to end 6 years of gridlock, 6 years of striving for a solution that has been outside of our reach. Today we can achieve that solution. Lots of Members have worked very hard to try to find that solution on both sides of the aisle. My good friend, the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Ganske); the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Norwood); the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Dingell); the gentlewoman from Connecticut (Mrs. Johnson); and the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Fletcher) have all worked hard to try to find that ground that gets us to a solution that really does create parents' rights. I think what this bill does, and the amendments that go along with it is, it puts patients first. It puts health care first. It puts the health care decision first, and that is a critical difference in this and some of the other concepts that we have talked about, such as the health care professional review panel that has an immediate answer.”