Political Quotes

“Madam President, I come to the floor today to talk about one of the dirty little secrets around here, and that is the ticking time bomb that is right under our noses and that, until recently, had been virtually ignored until some recent activity in Congress and at the Department of Health and Human Services brought the program into the spotlight. That time bomb is the CLASS Act. It is a long-term care entitlement program created by the health care reform law. On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal described the inclusion of the CLASS program in the health care law as the definition of insanity. I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record a copy of the article from the Wall Street Journal. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: [From the Wall Street Journal, Oct. 4, 2011] The Definition of Insanity Why no one wants to repeal a program that everyone knows is a fraud. The Obama health-care plan passed 18 months ago, and its cynicism still manages to astonish. Witness the spectacle surrounding one of its flagship new entitlements, which is eliciting some remarkable concessions from its drafters. The Health and Human Services Department recently shut down a government insurance program for long-term care, known by the acronym Class.…”