Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, this week we are going to be taking up, we think, a job killing so-called health care reform bill that the American people do not want but that the Democratic leadership and the President are determined to cram down our throats. This bill will not help our situation in terms of health care or health insurance. It does not reduce the cost of health insurance which was one of the goals the President said that he wanted. It does not solve any of the problems that we need to solve in health care. In fact, it makes those problems worse. Yesterday I had a town hall in Statesville, North Carolina, with about 175 people there. They are very upset about this proposed health care reform bill. They understand that a lot of dirty tricks are being played here, and they don't like it. They don't like several aspects of the proposal that is being brought forth this week. Number one, they don't like the fact that the Democrats are proposing to pass this bill without voting on the bill. They know that goes from passing bills without reading them to passing bills without voting for them. Another thing that they don't like is they don't like to see two bills that have no relationship to each other put together because one of the bills can't pass on its own and so the folks in charge attach it to a bill that they can get the votes for.…”