Political Quotes

“I thank my good friend from Texas for leading this very important Special Order tonight and for yielding. Transparency and accountability is such an important part of what we need in government. And what I have seen since my election a little over a year ago and when I came to Congress in January of 2009, and especially on every issue, we should have that type of transparency that we are talking about today. In particular, today we are talking about health care. There are probably few issues that we can deal with as a country and that we can debate and discuss as intimate to our lives as health care. It touches our lives in so many different ways. Plus, it is such a significant part of our economy. The issue of health care is just central to the American people. And for the type of debate--and I use that actually cautiously, that word ``debate,'' because there really hasn't been allowed an avenue of debate. I thought when I came to Congress I had a responsibility to represent the people that I now work for. When I worked in health care, and I did that for 28 years, I only had one boss. It changed from time to time. Today, I feel a responsibility that I work for 660,000 really smart people, and that is the citizens that live and work in the Fifth Congressional District of Pennsylvania.…”