Political Quotes

“I rise this evening and come to the floor to talk about an important issue of the day. A few hours ago in this Chamber on this floor, this House voted to repeal ObamaCare. The Affordable Care Act to me is a classic example of what is wrong with Washington, D.C. It is a philosophy that this city has the arrogance and the vision to think that if we take over an area such as health care from Washington, D.C., somehow magically the bureaucrats and the folks here in Washington are going to wave a magic wand and cure the problems in the health care industry. What ObamaCare is, it's simple: it's an expansion of government, it's 130 agencies, newly created agencies, to enter into the health care arena, 22 taxes to pay for that expansion of government to take on health care. You got half a trillion dollars of cuts to Medicare. Mr. Speaker, I have heard for the last 18 months, as a freshman Member of this Chamber, how the folks on this side of the aisle came here to Washington to kill Medicare. We literally had campaign ads where we were supposedly rolling Grandma and Grandpa up the Niagara Gorge to somehow represent that that's the mission of our side of the aisle. That's ridiculous. Here we have a bill that cuts Medicare $500 billion, and my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have the audacity to say that we're the ones who are trying to kill Medicare. Well, $500 billion worth of cuts to Medicare goes a long way to jeopardizing that program.…”