Political Quotes

“My colleague from Florida who just spoke said that the Democrats were going to attack this proposal or the pay- for for this proposal by saying that it's an assault on the middle class, and that's exactly what I intend to say. Unless I misunderstood my colleague from Florida, he seemed to suggest that the health care subsidies, that people who are in this $80,000 or $90,000 income bracket was something that they were not entitled to; I suppose because he thinks that somehow they're too rich. Well, let me tell you, if you have a family of four and you're making $80,000 to $90,000 a year or something like that, certainly in my State of New Jersey but in a lot of parts of the country, it's very difficult for you with a family of four to be able to buy health insurance, to pay your premium, without some help. And that's exactly what we're talking about when we talk about people who are middle class. People who are middle class could be making $25,000 a year, $40,000, $50,000, $80,000, $90,000, $100,000 a year. It's not easy to be able to afford your health premiums if you have a family of four and you're in that income bracket. I regret what's happening here today, because the bottom line is there was bipartisan agreement on the main goal of repealing this 1099 reporting. Doing away with it is something that the Democrats actually put on the House floor and voted on last session.…”