Political Quotes

“I was not going to talk very long on this, but since we spent so much time on California before, the time is gone. So I might as well vent my emotions a little bit more than I was going to. In February of this year, when I found out what the proposal was from OMB, I tried to reason with him that this was not a political year to do this with this sort of thing. While I agree with the policy, I did not agree with the politics of what was going to happen, because it is very difficult to make the program work, which I must say that the Committee on Energy and Commerce worked so well with us to craft. The problem is that we were not able to get it all done. We are willing to accept it. We are willing to carry it, but there are certain things we could not get done. We hope that when we get to the conference committee that we can fix this. This, at some point in the process, in my opinion, must be fixed; but I am outraged at certain people who put us in this position. We did not need to be in this position.”