Political Quotes

“As bad as the Medicare bill is, the process is even worse. We would like to read the bill. We cannot find it. The reason we cannot find the bill is the bill was, first of all, written by the prescription drug companies, by the insurance companies, in private, similar to how Vice President Cheney wrote the energy bill, Vice President Cheney who still receives $3,000 a week from an oil company as part of his pay, but these bills have been written in secret. The prescription drug bill has been written by the insurance industry, by the drug industry. At the conference committee when the House and Senate were trying to work together to write a bill, no House Democrats were allowed in the room. No House Democrats were allowed to look at the bill, to discuss the bill, to debate the bill or to offer amendments. When I hear my friend from Florida sort of gratuitously say we should read the bill, we would like that opportunity. The problem with this prescription drug issue, it is not really a prescription drug bill.”