Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I was happy to ask unanimous consent to pass the bill that we just passed to ensure that the troops will be paid. But I do disagree with the remarks of my Republican colleagues and much of what they said in the last few minutes. Let's talk about what was in this amendment that they sent us, this message they sent to us. Among other things, here is what it had in it: A provision--this is hard to comprehend, but listen to this--that would allow any employer, insurance plan or individual to refuse to cover any of the women's health preventative services that were included by Senator Mikulski in her women's health amendment, things like contraception, for virtually any reason during the 1-year delay. That was in their amendment. It was spoken of clearly--I will talk about it a little later--by a cancer survivor in the House of Representatives, Debbie Wasserman Schultz. It would have an adverse effect on cancer survivors, on women. That is one thing they did. There has been a lot of talk here about the medical devices revenue issue. This is something that we will take a look at. We need to do that. But remember this magnanimous offer to get rid of this by the Republicans in the House and in the Senate would run up the debt by $30 billion. How do you like that? $30 billion. No offset. No pay-go. What does it matter? They are fixated on ObamaCare. I mean fixated on it. My friend from Texas referred to it as a bill. It is not a bill. It is the law.…”