Political Quotes

“I thank Chairman Brady for yielding the time. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to talk about the very important issue that this bill is here to address. We have at the end of the month a cliff where our providers under Medicare are going to be looking at a 24 percent cut in their reimbursements for caring for our seniors. What are we doing today? The other side is engaging in political theater rather than deal with the issue at hand. We have an opportunity, Mr. Speaker, to fix a problem out of Washington, D.C., that has repeatedly been coming up since 2003--and do it on a long-term, permanent basis. We have spent $150 billion in minor patches to the doc fix over that period of time. Today, we have an opportunity--through the bipartisan work on the policy that will resolve this issue once and for all--to do it at a cost of $138 billion. That would take care of this threat to our seniors and to the doctors that are providing for them on a permanent basis. That is the right thing to do. So what is the argument over? Well, how we are going to pay for it? My friends in the other Chamber on the other side of this esteemed building here feel we should continue the status quo of Washington, D.C., and not pay for our policy decisions that we decide here in Washington.…”