Political Quotes

“Do you realize in my district alone thousands of senior citizens have received letters that they are no longer insured? They are elderly, in their seventies, their 75th, 80th year and they are completely discombobulated with the idea that this Congress would be so callous as to not respond to their needs. Just as the 800,000 unemployed people are discombobulated today knowing that they do not know when their next unemployment check will come because we failed to extend it before we went home. Quite frankly, I do not care whether it is a Republican problem or a Democratic problem. I do not think this is a party problem. This is a traffic cop problem for the leadership of this House, and the leadership of this House rests on the Republican control. And I am just calling your attention to it as a Member without partisan feeling. We cannot afford to allow this to happen in the future.”