Political Quotes

“I appreciate my colleague from Connecticut's strong words. Here is the deal. The Democrats have used money out of the Prevention Fund to fund tax cuts over time. That is a true statement. They have used it for all kinds of things. But the long and short of it is that we brought two clean CHIP bills; one that fully funded community health centers and the Special Diabetes Program, and teaching hospitals that stopped--you know the only thing that did against ObamaCare that I think a lot of you wrote and asked me to do? We turned off the cuts to DSH hospitals. That is a requirement under the existing ObamaCare law. You told us: You got to turn off these cuts to our hospitals that serve the low-income people. We said: You know, you are right. That is actually bipartisan. Most of what we did was bipartisan that you all and we all agreed on. Then, when they didn't like that--and I think only 15 Democrats voted for that whole package. They are all for community health centers; they are all for the Special Diabetes Program; they are all for turning off the DSH cuts; they are all for CHIP, until they have an opportunity to vote for it, and then they voted ``no.'' And then we brought a clean CHIP bill to the floor as part of keeping the Federal Government open, and they didn't like that. They were for a 5-year CHIP bill until they wanted 10. We gave them 6.…”