Political Quotes

“I rise to join in the remarks of the Senator from West Virginia, who worked very hard to make sure we had a resolution that would allow us to direct the Senate legal counsel to intervene in the lawsuit. Of course, the lawsuit is beyond the district court. We await what might happen in an appellate court. But the best way for anyone in this body to express their disagreement with the removal of the protections for those who might have a preexisting condition, if you believe that those protections should remain the law of the land as they are now, then you should, as a Member of the House or the Senate--even if you wanted to be in favor and voted in favor of repealing the Affordable Care Act, you could still argue that in the interest of preserving those protections, without question, in the interest of providing certainty to not just tens of millions of Americans but many millions more than that who have these protections in law right now--did not have those protections before the Affordable Care Act--if that is what you believe, you could very easily say: Let's preserve them and make a different argument in this court case, file a brief, and try to intervene, as you could in this case. But for some reason around here, some people think they can have it both ways.…”