Political Quotes

“Yesterday, Madam President, a bunch of Members of Congress, with healthcare paid for by taxpayers, went to the White House and celebrated a handout for corporations that sends jobs overseas--companies that shut down in Mansfield, in Zanesville, in Lima, and Toledo moved to Wuhan and Sheshan and Shanghai and Guangzhou. Families here in America, at the same time--I am still incredulous about this. Families in this country, at the same time--in this State of Virginia, just a few miles from here--are getting letters in the mail saying their kids are about to be kicked off their health insurance through something that was bipartisan and never interrupted for 20 years since Chairman Hatch and Senator Rockefeller and Senator Kennedy wrote this bill to create CHIP--and a number of us worked on it in the House of Representatives--because Congress hasn't done its job. Think about that. Because Congress hasn't done its job, we are about to go home for Christmas--most of us--and those who don't celebrate Christmas are about to go home for the holidays and celebrate the new year. My grandchildren are coming from Columbus, and another one is coming from the Virgin Islands with his father--our son and his daughter-in-law. We are going to go home, and our families have health insurance, but Members of Congress who get good health insurance paid for by taxpayers are willing to leave here and not reauthorize, not continue the Children's Health Insurance Program.…”