Political Quotes

“If I could jump in on the issue of Medicare because I have a quote here from President Obama, July 29, 2009: ``Medicare is a government program, but do not worry, I am not going touch it.'' As a matter of fact, only months later he signed into law Obamacare, which takes $\1/2\ trillion from Medicare. And it touches on the very issue the Senator from Kansas was referring to with regard to Medicare access for people in rural Kansas. Mr. McCAIN. Madam President, I might point out to my friend from Mississippi that the first amendment we had on the floor of the Senate when we were considering ObamaCare was to restore that $500 billion, and it was voted down on a party-line basis. I thank my friends for allowing me to engage in this colloquy. I want to discuss this with my friends. In my view, probably what encapsulates the problems with this legislation--the commitment began that we would provide affordable health care to all Americans, which meant we had to put the brakes on inflation in health care because health care was becoming unaffordable--the highest quality health care in the world. Nothing, in my view--and I ask my colleagues this--describes more how this whole plan went awry than the so-called CLASS Act. Late in the debate, the CLASS Act was thrown in to provide long-term care for seniors, which seems like a worthy cause, but the whole thing was a gimmick.…”