Political Quotes

“Madam President, we, unfortunately, are in a period where we are going to be redebating health care reform. We had long debates on health care reform in the last couple years. I cannot think of legislation that has occupied so much time in this body, as well as the other body. But, regrettably, we are going to redebate health care reform, even though legislation was passed last year, and even though the legislation was signed by the President. The law is enacted. Nevertheless, this body, regrettably, is going to spend, it looks like, a lot of time redebating health care reform. Why? Basically, because the other side of the aisle wants to do so--wants to not admit health care reform is the law of the land. It wants to repeal it. The other side knows there are not sufficient votes to repeal health care reform. That is a well-known fact. The other side knows and those who have covered health care debate reform know the votes are not there. It is the law of the land, signed last year, and it will remain the law of the land. So then, you might ask, if it is the law of the land today and if everybody knows Congress will not repeal health care reform, why in the world are we going to debate this for another who knows how many weeks, months or maybe even years? To be honest, I think it is because the other side thinks--and I will pick the charitable explanation first. They don't like health care reform, for whatever reason, even though I strongly disagree with their reasons.…”