Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I thank Senator Casey and Senator Stabenow for their leadership. They are exactly right about this. They are right about maternal health, CHIP, rural hospitals, and community health centers that so many people depend upon, and I thank them very much for their work. I thank the ranking member of the Finance Committee, Mr. Wyden, for joining us. Mr. Carper, I believe, will be joining us too. It has now been 112 days since funding expired for the Children's Health Insurance Program. It has been 112 days of uncertainty for families, 112 days of mothers worrying about being able to afford their child's checkups, 112 days of fathers who will have to choose between the heating bill and medicine for their kids, and for every one of those 112 days, the Republican leaders in Congress have made a choice about extending CHIP, and we know it is something that has been bipartisan for two decades. The chairman of the Finance Committee loves to brag about the fact that he was there at its inception. He invented it with Senator Kennedy or he invented it and Senator Kennedy came along afterward or whatever actually happened 20 years ago, he loves to brag about it. In the Finance Committee, with Senators Casey, Carper, Wyden, Stabenow and others, we asked him about it repeatedly during the tax bill. Again, they were willing to pass a tax cut in December, where 81 percent of the benefits in that tax bill went to the richest 1 percent.…”