Political Quotes

“To set the record straight. First of all, my colleague who just spoke, it was his party that raided Medicare as part of the President's health care legislation by $500 billion. That's a fact. Now, when he says that my party ended Medicare, that is not a fact. And, in fact, PolitiFact, the independent arbiter of what we all say here to see if it's truthful, said that the notion that that is true is the biggest untruth of the year. They gave it that award because they knew that it wasn't true. And I know it's not true. Now, I'm trying to figure out what my friend, and he is my friend, means when he said that this isn't somehow raiding Social Security's trust fund because the payroll tax that is at issue here that is being reduced by 2 percent is the payment that, if it were made, would go into Social Security. That's the payroll tax. I won't yield at this moment. You wouldn't yield to me. I'll let you use your folks' time. Now that is being offset. And by the way, the offsets that we are talking about as part of this legislation almost in every case received bipartisan support in this House, and sometimes overwhelming bipartisan support. And many of those offsets were actually recommended by the President of the United States, Mr. Obama, as part of a different package as things that he thought made sense. And so we said, you know what? Maybe there's some common ground here.…”