Political Quotes

“I so appreciate the gentleman from Colorado joining us tonight. When you talk about Dr. Washington, it is a great analogy. What we're really talking about--are we not?--is the Independent Payment Advisory Board as kind of the primary example of the agency of Dr. Washington. What is the Independent Payment Advisory Board? It's 15 unelected bureaucrats that, under the law, will be making recommendations to Congress as to where to cut in Medicare, the types of services that are going to be provided under American health care going forward under ObamaCare. Now, the argument I've heard from my colleagues on the other side of the aisle is, well, those are just recommendations. But they go to Congress, and if we disagree, we can take a vote in the House and take a vote in the Senate and the President signs it into law, and we overrule those recommendations. Look at the law. Read the law. I trust the American individuals. Read the law. What do those recommendations do? Those recommendations come to Congress and require a two-thirds vote of the House and the Senate to approve or disapprove those recommendations if we want to do something differently than what the agency recommends to us. Why stack the deck? Why have a two-thirds voting requirement on such a critical issue as to what health care is going to be delivered in America? So let's just be open and honest with the American people and call it what it is.…”