Political Quotes

“Thank you again to the gentlelady from the Virgin Islands and the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus' health brain trust for laying out, again, the hard work that the Congressional Black Caucus has been involved with for many years in getting to the point with the Affordable Care Act now on the cusp of being fully implemented in January of 2014. So when our colleagues on the other side spend time bringing up legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act now more than 30 times after this legislation has been approved by Congress, it has been upheld by the courts, it has been signed by the President, and the American public are desperate for quality health care--that is why we are coming here today to say enough is enough. Thirty times to repeal the Affordable Care Act--how many more times will we waste the people's, House's and our time bringing these issues forward when we need to be working together to implement the Affordable Care Act in the way that it is intended? At this time, I would like to yield to the second vice chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. She is a strong leader for her constituents, the gentlelady from New York (Ms. Clarke).”