Political Quotes

“I rise to speak in opposition to the confirmation of Judge Barrett to the Supreme Court. We should not be holding this vote. We are in the eleventh hour of a Presidential election, and 56 million Americans have already voted. The American people are sending a message, and we ought to hear what they have to say. Instead, what is happening in the Senate is an obscene power grab by my Republican colleagues to bypass democracy and force the least popular and most extreme views of their party onto the American people with no regard for the life-and-death consequences of their actions. So, my friends in the majority, you had a decade to create an alternative to the Affordable Care Act. You still have no viable plan. And after failing to repeal it in 2017 and suffering an unprecedented electoral rebuke in 2018, you are relying on the Supreme Court to do your dirty work. Oral arguments in California v. Texas, the legal challenge brought by Republican-led States with the Trump administration's support are on the Court's docket November 10. We know full well that a 6-to-3 conservative majority of the Supreme Court is likely to overturn it or maybe just gut the ACA so deeply it will effectively be dead, as if that is somehow any better. At least 20 million people are at risk of losing their healthcare coverage, and 135 million may lose protections for preexisting conditions.…”