Political Quotes

“Thank you, Mr. Levin. I was somewhat embarrassed by the remarks of my friend, who is from Butler, Pennsylvania, the hometown of my wife, because it is the Republicans who have decided to make this bill about the next election. There is no reason the House Republicans put the medical community through this charade again and again, year after year, except to use the SGR as a tool for power, partisan advantage, and fundraising. This political tool disrupts the lives of millions of medical providers and tens of millions of their patients who rely upon them. We had, in fact, been making remarkable progress in both the Commerce Committee and the Ways and Means Committee on a bipartisan solution. Instead, the Republicans have hijacked this bipartisan solution and made it so bad that even the American Medical Association rejects it. What then should we do? First, we should reject this bill overwhelmingly. It certainly will never be enacted into law. What should we do then? I would argue that we ought to just reset the baseline. Remember the alternative minimum tax? We finally decided it would never be imposed. Adjusted the budget to reflect the fact that it will never happen. And if you won't do that, at least give the medical community procedural fairness. Kevin Brady said, Let's work in a bipartisan approach. He admits that this isn't going to be the last word. Well, let's try procedural fairness.…”