Political Quotes

“Madam President, I wished to review a couple points with regard to where we are on health care. We are at a point now where, of course, we are still awaiting action in the House--the other body, as it is sometimes referred to in the Senate--so we have to allow the House process to take place, and then, of course, we will be taking up health care more directly or more definitively next week. But I think it is important to put this issue into the context of real people. We have a lot of discussions in the Senate and throughout Washington on process and procedure and numbers and all that, and that is important and relevant, but at the end of the discussion--the old expression ``at the end of the day''--we have to be able to not only talk to the American people, as we have over many months now--in some cases many years--about what this legislation will do, but also we have to be aware of what is concerning a lot of people, a lot of families. I received a letter in the early part of 2009 from a woman in Pennsylvania who lives in Berks County--kind of the eastern side of our State, just north of Philadelphia, a couple counties north of Philadelphia, Berks County--and the woman who wrote to me, Trisha Urban, is someone whom I have come to know over the past couple years because of the tragedy in her own life which relates directly to health care.…”