Political Quotes

“I am outraged to find out that these navigators are not reaching out to people in rural areas. What we have learned today on the House floor is that apparently this program doesn't reach people in rural areas. That is why the gentlewoman from Oklahoma has this amendment, apparently. These navigators, what the heck do they do? We have had amendments to say you have got to have navigators reach out to people on Medicaid. You have got to have navigators reach out to people on the Children's Health Insurance Program. We have to tell them that? What have they been doing? We are going to have an amendment coming up saying, Navigators, we are going to put into Federal law that you have to reach out to the veterans' community. They don't do that today? Are you serious? And we are going to have navigators that have to be educated. When you are reaching out, you better talk about mental health services and substance abuse. Have they been ignoring that all along? I guess so. Because my friends on the other side of the aisle have been bringing amendment after amendment to correct these obvious omissions and problems with the navigator program. What has been going on in the navigator program? This is outrageous to learn that rural areas--and I represent an area that would stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to Ohio, 69,000 square miles--and you are talking about rural.…”