Political Quotes

“it has been an amazing process. I have been here a little over 10 years, and I have never seen anything like this. We voted cloture a few days ago to move to debate. Nothing. Now we have a bill here today that as Senator Murphy has already pointed out, will rip healthcare away from millions of people, increase premiums by 20 percent a year, and basically solve none of the problems that are out there that need to be solved that affect Americans every day, especially rural Americans. I must thank the Senator from Washington, Mrs. Murray, for the motion to take this back to committee. This is where we should have started. We should have started in the committee process like our forefathers had designed this place to work, the greatest deliberative body in the world, but it didn't. Every bill has been drafted by a select few in a backroom, with no input from anybody, especially people from rural America. So it is really time, folks, to open this process up. As I have gone around the State of Montana--and I have for the last 8 months--talking to folks about healthcare in rural America, they are very nervous. I am going to tell you something. If people cannot pay their bills because they don't have health insurance or they don't have the money, it is going to put these small hospitals at risk, these rural hospitals at risk. I will tell you a little bit about the town I grew up in. This is a town where my grandparents homesteaded over 100 years ago.…”