Political Quotes

“But to repeal it and to get rid of it, to try to highlight--in fact, there were a number of votes that have taken place to actually make it worse, to have a bigger impact on low- and moderate-income families, have a bigger cliff for people who have changes in their economic circumstances, to have a larger penalty rather than smoothing, refining, and making it better. We have an opportunity to be able to deal meaningfully with things that will improve the health of the American people. If we don't agree on the refinement of the Affordable Care Act--I am hoping that we might have a more responsible and slightly better Congress next time, but there are things we could do right now in areas of medical research. I mentioned Zika. We have opportunities to move forward. This takes off the top something that has been in the legislation for some time that focuses one element, but doesn't improve the quality of health care; that doesn't deal with refining and strengthening the Affordable Care Act; that doesn't deal with the crisis of Zika; doesn't beef up medical research. We have many priorities. We have many opportunities. The easiest thing in the world to do is come in and try to cut taxes, add more deductions, make changes, particularly if we are not going to pay for those changes, if we are just going to add to the deficit greater borrowing for the future. This is cotton candy. This is not serious legislation. There are no tradeoffs involved here.…”