Political Quotes

“I come to the floor this afternoon to announce I will be voting against Congressman Price to be the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Despite some of the remarks people have expressed, I feel passionately about the fact that he is the wrong person to serve in that job. I have heard from a remarkable number of my constituents who also believe he is the wrong person for the job. Congressman Price is an outspoken advocate for repealing the Affordable Care Act, which would cause up to 30 million Americans to lose their health insurance and put at risk the lives of thousands of people in New Hampshire and across America who rely on the Affordable Care Act--or ObamaCare--for treatment of substance abuse disorders. He is a rampant supporter of defunding Planned Parenthood and denying women our reproductive rights. If he defunds Planned Parenthood, it would mean that women would lose access to contraceptive services and cancer screenings. In New Hampshire we have thousands of women who rely on Planned Parenthood as their only source of health care. Congressman Price is determined to make billions of dollars in cuts to the Medicaid program, which would jeopardize the health of some of our most vulnerable citizens, including millions of children living in poverty and millions of seniors living in nursing home care. I am especially troubled by the threat that Representative Price poses to women's health.…”