Political Quotes

“We are seeing today that after 75 or so hours of markup, hundreds of hours of hearings, 16 months of long debate, thousands upon thousands of meetings and town halls, the Republicans come to Washington and don't know what they want to do in health care yet. My constituents should understand, and the Speaker should understand, that this resolution says, go back and figure out what we want to do. Ladies and gentlemen, I would remind you that last year during the health care debate, the Republicans had a chance to offer an alternative. They didn't. Now they come to Washington and say, oh, let's have the committees go try to figure this all out. Yesterday they were the Party of No, and today they are the party of ``we don't know how to go.'' Who are these Republicans? After months and months and months of the national debate, you can go into any coffee shop, any church basement, just about any card game in this country and people have solid ideas about what they think about health care. But not the Republicans. They've got a resolution today that says, hey, committees, go try to figure this stuff out, it's complicated. And by the way, I don't know, Madam Speaker, if I read it correctly, but I don't think there are any deadlines. I don't think there are any deadlines. I will eat this rostrum if they come back with legislation that actually accomplishes the things that they just repealed yesterday. It's not going to happen.”