Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I rise to share my concerns about the devastating impact of the Affordable Care Act and, specifically, the Cadillac tax. The Cadillac tax is a 40-percent excise tax set to take place in 2018 on employer-sponsored health insurance plans. In Nevada, 1.3 million workers who have employer-sponsored health insurance plans will be hit by this Cadillac tax. These are public employees in Carson City, service industry workers on the strip in Las Vegas, and small business owners and their retirees across the State of Nevada. My colleagues from across the country have heard the same concerns I have: This 40-percent tax will increase costs, significantly reduce benefits or result in employers getting rid of employer-sponsored health coverage all together. Is this what we want? Is this what we voted for? Is this what the other side voted for? This is precisely why Senator Martin Heinrich of New Mexico and I have sponsored the Middle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal Act of 2015, the only bipartisan piece of legislation to fully repeal this onerous tax. My bill has 19 bipartisan cosponsors. Over the summer, when I committed to taking a leadership role to fully repeal this tax, I waited for months for a sign that my colleagues across the aisle would work together to repeal this tax. There was a lot of talk, but there was no action. To date there is still little action from these same colleagues, which is why I ask them once again to join me in repealing this bad tax.…”