Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I wish to explain to the American people exactly why I voted ``no'' on this continuing resolution earlier today. If you look at all that has been said about the Children's Health Insurance Program, what you are going to find is that we extended that program in this CR for 6 years with a savings of $1 billion. It is a sleight of hand, because we did not fund community health centers; we did not fund the disproportionate share hospitals, mostly rural in my district; we did not fund adequately the teaching hospitals. So if you wanted to really be honest with the American people, we could have extended the Children's Health Insurance Program permanently and saved $6 billion and would have had enough money in the savings to expand our community health centers, to fund disproportionate share hospitals, and to fund teaching hospitals, that which we did not do, and I voted ``no.'' ____________________”