Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, we are spending a few hours today debating the abortion non-discrimination bill. Despite this bill's troubling implications for women and despite the strong concerns many of my colleagues and I have about the bill, Republican leadership bypassed the committee and brought it straight to the floor. While we debate this bill today, a number of issues continue to languish. When my colleagues and I have asked Republican leadership to hold a hearing on legislation that promotes greater competition in the prescription drug marketplace and brings down the cost of prescription drugs, they did nothing. When we asked them to bring the competition bill to the floor, they did nothing. The Senate has passed similar legislation. If we were to debate it on the floor today, we would pass it, and we would be one step closer to bringing down the cost of prescription drugs. Yet, this Republican leadership is going to send us home before our work is done without passing a bill to cover prescription drugs, without passing a bill to try to get the price of prescription drugs down. Now, today's House Republicans are proposing legislation that curtails health care information and curtails services available to women, again, before they bring something as important as prescription drug pricing to the floor. The public has every right to question the priorities of Republican leadership.”