Frank Pallone: “There is a basic difference of philosophy here, or ideology, and, that is, that this Republican leadership does not…”

“There is a basic difference of philosophy here, or ideology, and, that is, that this Republican leadership does not believe in the government essentially, and they believe that it is better if the government does nothing. I have had many Republicans on the other side of the aisle the last couple of days say, ``Well, it doesn't matter if we're labeled as the do-nothing Congress because a do-nothing Congress is better.'' Many of them actually believe that. They do not look at the concerns that we have for the health and the safety and the protection of the average American as something that is actually positive. Remember that the issues that we feel that they should be raising, managed care reform, as far as many of them are concerned, there is no need for managed care reform because they do not have a problem with the insurance industry basically running roughshod over the American people and not providing medically necessary procedures and operations and length of stay in the hospital that a person needs to provide for adequate health care.”