Political Quotes

“I listened to my colleagues cry out for a bipartisan cooperation and progress. I listened to them talk about somehow having promises not kept. Think for a moment. My colleagues--the promise of Donald Trump and the Republicans to replace and enhance the Affordable Care Act. They are going to eliminate it, and they are going to replace it with something better. No, they could not do it. They have been assaulting the Affordable Care Act since the moment it was passed and they got their hands on part of the political control. They fought to protect Big Pharma so that we have this corrupt bargain where Americans have to pay the highest prescription drug prices in the world in order to bribe pharmaceutical companies to continue research. And they wouldn't unless Americans pay more than anybody else in the world--including, in many instances, people who can't afford their prescription drugs. That corrupt bargain needs to be rejected. Madam Speaker, now we are hearing, I think, starkly, the difference between Republicans and Democrats--night and day--that active sabotage of the Affordable Care Act, today with the Republican attorneys general and the full weight of the Trump administration to try again to repeal it in its entirety. Madam Speaker, our legislation would increase coverage for 4 million people. You know, it is interesting watching people fight against the efforts of the Trump administration and the Republicans to deny them coverage.…”