Political Quotes

“last night we learned that the current Republican healthcare bill lacks enough support to even reach the floor of the Senate. After numerous delays, false starts, false predictions, and two pulled votes, it should be crystal clear to everyone on the other side of the aisle that the core of the bill is unworkable. It is time to move on. It is time to start over. Rather than repeating the same failed partisan process yet again, Republicans should work with Democrats on a bill that lowers premiums, provides long-term stability to the markets, and improves our healthcare system. I heard the Republican leader this morning say that Democrats ``decided early on that they did not want to engage seriously'' on healthcare. In the same speech, the Republican leader also admitted that the very first thing the Republican majority did this Congress was to pass reconciliation so they could pass healthcare on a party-line vote--50 needed, no Democrats needed. Early on, the majority leader told Democrats: We don't need you. We don't want you. Respectfully, I take issue with the idea that Democrats didn't want to engage on healthcare. The majority leader admitted that he decided the matter for us when he locked Democrats out of the process at the outset. At the very beginning of this Congress, President Trump and Leader McConnell said: Don't come knocking on our door on healthcare. We don't need you.…”