Political Quotes

“As we heard earlier, these are folks who are getting hit by a wrecking ball with respect to health care. They literally have nowhere to turn. Many of them are not old enough for Medicare, not poor enough for Medicaid. They don't fit into a lot of the categories--these boxes by which you get health care in our country. So what we did in these bipartisan negotiations--and the Senator from Minnesota was particularly helpful, but I also commend the Senator from West Virginia, Mr. Rockefeller, who is very much involved in this effort to get a bipartisan agreement with respect to a 75-percent allocation of the coverage--we were able to add critical benefits for spouses, which is something that was so important to help people where there was an interruption in coverage. So what the Senator from Montana has outlined with respect to health care issues was exactly, in my view, how the Senate ought to move to deal with a very real problem but to do it in a bipartisan way.”