Political Quotes

“Mr. President, on Friday a unified House Republican conference sent a strong message to the American people: Let's keep the government open, and let's protect the American people simultaneously from the harmful and potentially devastating effects of ObamaCare. It is now time for the Senate to act. We know the President's health care law is not ready to implement. The Wall Street Journal recently reported that the government's software that runs the online insurance marketplaces, known as exchanges, simply is not ready. It can't reliably determine how much people need to pay for coverage. In the face of this and the other aspects of the law that are not ready--many of them by the President's own admission--if the administration goes ahead with this law anyway, we know ObamaCare will be implemented in a manner that is manifestly unfair and that is likely to harm hard-working Americans. Big business, unions, and other special interests may well all receive special treatment under ObamaCare while the rest of the country will be forced into ObamaCare's unfair, unworkable, and fundamentally unsound system. We know the law is unaffordable. We know it will be bad for the economy. At a time when we are running annual deficits approaching $1 trillion, ObamaCare is going to cost roughly $2 trillion over the next 10 years. The law is forcing employers to shed workers, cut back hours, and stop providing health insurance for employees. And we know it is not going to work.…”