Political Quotes

“let me thank my colleagues on the other side of the aisle for yielding us time. This august body has been around for over 220 years. It has rules. It has traditions we are very proud of. In recent years--both parties to blame--many of those traditions have been eroded. What happens when you erode the traditions--the bipartisanship, the ability to work through the regular order--is very simply that the product that emerges is not very good. There is a reason this body has been the greatest deliberative body in the world, and it is because it had those traditions. Now we don't have them. We have a bill that we have seen for 2 hours. It affects the healthcare, perhaps the lives--almost certainly the lives--of millions. It affects the daily lives of men and women and children. We haven't even had a chance to explore all the ramifications. There is a lot of anger on the other side at the ACA. I understand that, but you are repeating what you claim are the same mistakes. Just as maybe ObamaCare could have been made better if it were a bipartisan proposal, this one certainly would have been made better. This skinny repeal, CBO tells us, will kick 15 million people--16 million people--off care. This skinny bill, after all the cries of reducing premiums as the major reason that ObamaCare needed changes, will raise premiums 20 percent a year, ad infinitum. The average working family is going to struggle to get healthcare even more than they have now.…”