Political Quotes

“Last week, the Committee on Energy and Commerce was marking up the prescription drug bill. Last Wednesday, we stopped at 5 p.m. in the afternoon when we should have been working into the evening. Why? Because my friends on that side of the aisle went to a Republican fund-raiser underwritten by the prescription drug companies. The Chair of that dinner was the CEO of a British drug company who donated $250,000 to the Republican Party. There were hundreds of thousands of other dollars donated by drug companies that night. The next day, Mr. Speaker, when we went back for the markup, every amendment that Democrats offered that the drug companies did not like, surprise, was voted down. An amendment that said seniors should get the same drug benefits that Members of Congress get was voted down on a party line vote because the drug company sat in the back of the room and said no. Every amendment we voted on that the drug companies did not like, to close the gap in all the out-of-pocket expenses that seniors had to pay, if the drug companies did not like it, they sat back in the back of the room and said no. Vote for the Democratic plan written for seniors.”