Political Quotes

“Mr. President, what is happening today on the Senate floor is outrageous. I still cannot quite believe my colleagues as their staff members stood behind them in the Senate Chamber to my right. All of them have health insurance that is paid for by taxpayers. All of us--all of them, all of the staff, all of the Senators, all of the House Members--have insurance paid for by taxpayers. Yet they would come to the Senate floor with their votes entrusted to them and given to them by the voting public in their districts and their States. All of them have health insurance that is paid for by the taxpayers, and they would vote to take insurance away from hundreds of thousands of people in my State and in Washington and in Wyoming and in Alabama and in Hawaii. Millions of people around the country, most of whom have jobs--people who are working $8-, $10-, $12-, $15-an-hour jobs--are not as well paid as the staff who stand behind us as these floor sessions go on, and they would take insurance away from people like them. I am still just incredulous that that would have happened. This bill affects all of our constituents. It would upend one-fifth of the American economy. Yet the people whom we serve have no idea what is in this bill. We really do not know what is in it. Over the weekend, people said Senator McConnell was going to bring us all to the floor on Tuesday to vote on the healthcare law. This is the law to repeal the Affordable Care Act.…”