Political Quotes

“the distinguished Senator from Iowa talks convincingly and persuasively about so many times when Members are shut out of the process. Certainly chief among those would have been in 2009, when we could have used the expertise of Senator Grassley, had our colleagues across the aisle been willing to work with him in a bipartisan fashion to write a bipartisan health care bill which employed market principles and competition. Instead, just as he mentioned in his remarks, he was shut out of the process, as were all Republicans. So we have an ObamaCare law on the books now supported by every Democrat in the Senate and supported by no Republicans, some 18 percent of our gross domestic product turned on its head by this legislation, and it was not done in a bipartisan fashion as anything this big should be done. The Senator is correct, and I appreciate him mentioning the larger sense in which Members feel they are being shut out of the process. I rise tonight particularly to call Members' attention to an op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal, Monday, February 24, page A-15, entitled ``ObamaCare and My Mother's Cancer Medicine,'' by Stephen Blackwood. I have no idea about Stephen Blackwood's politics. The article at the end says Mr. Blackwood is president of Ralston College, a planned liberal arts institution in Savannah, GA. So I know he comes from academia, and I know he loves his mother and is concerned with what ObamaCare has done to his mother's cancer coverage.…”