Political Quotes

“I want to thank the ranking member of the Rules Committee. I just want to express the tremendous frustration that I have and that Democrats have in general with the way the Republican leadership has handled the CHIP bill, IPAB, and community health centers, the legislation we are considering today and tomorrow. First of all, I need to point out that it was over a year ago when I asked leadership of our committee to try to come up with bipartisan legislation with regard to community health centers and SCHIP, the children's initiative, and all they wanted to do from January until September--9 months--was repeal the Affordable Care Act. {time} 1330 That is all they were interested in. They didn't want to hear anything about CHIP or community health centers, just repeal the Affordable Care Act. My colleagues on the other side suggested that somehow, because of CHIP, they are very concerned about kids. Well, the fact of the matter is, if you repeal the Affordable Care Act, children--everyone--and community health centers would suffer such damage because they would lose their health insurance or the underpinnings of the community health centers, which have been financed with the Affordable Care Act, that any suggestion that somehow because you are concerned now about CHIP or community health centers is belied by the fact that you spent the last 9 months, through September, trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act.…”