Political Quotes

“I am just amazed. I listened to the gentleman from Georgia who just spoke, and he said that in his district all of the focus is on health care and health care repeal. Well, I don't know, when I go home all I hear in my district is jobs and the economy. People are concerned about the economy. They want us to create jobs, they want us to focus mostly on that issue, not on repeal of health care. {time} 0930 The other problem I have with the gentleman from Georgia's comments is he seems to think that because the House passed this repeal yesterday that the health reform is repealed. Well, let me tell everyone it's not, and this is just a ruse. This bill, this health reform wasn't repealed. The Senate isn't even going to take it up. The President has said that he would never sign a repeal bill. So the Republicans are just wasting their time, rather than focusing on what we should be focusing on, the jobs and the economy. They keep talking about this false repeal that is never going to happen. Now, I also wanted to say something about what Mr. Dreier said before. He talked about increasing access, increased choices. That's not what goes on if this bill was ever repealed. The choice is now for people who have preexisting conditions, they can't get insurance. They have to pay more if they try to get it, or the kids that are on the policies that would be taken off if we had the repeal, or the people that would again face lifetime caps.…”