Political Quotes

“Yes, and not just from my constituents. When I get home, I am out all over my district. My district is a great snapshot of Pennsylvania because it is actually 22 percent of the landmass of the commonwealth State, so it is a fairly large piece of Pennsylvania, and consistently, people are very conservative. Yet it's not just the people. Their State representatives are concerned as well. I just received a resolution that is being put forward in the Pennsylvania State House by members of that chamber. It is essentially expressing their concern over this health care mandate. You know, Pennsylvania, with the expanded roles of Medicaid, is expected to have a bill of somewhere in excess of $3 billion between 2014 and 2019. Three billion dollars. I've got to tell you that, financially, Pennsylvania is strapped right now. We were the last State to get a budget this past fiscal year, and this year's budget is not going to be much better, I don't think. These are very, very challenging times for States, for a lot of States, not just for Pennsylvania.”