Political Quotes

“I am so pleased that my colleague from Oklahoma is on the floor and is talking about this issue that affects so many Americans. Indeed, in Tennessee, we have seen the impact of this. As my colleague mentioned, our friends across the aisle have done what we call kicking the can when it comes to healthcare. ObamaCare is too expensive to afford--that is something that has been proven--but instead of dealing with root causes, they are saying: Let's just extend the COVID-era subsidies for another 3 years, and then we will talk about it. He also mentioned triggering that date during a Presidential election--doing nothing to reform the abuse that you are finding in the system and just kicking the can and saying: Let's do these subsidies. Let's not worry about it. Well, you know, that is not something that Tennesseans are wanting to see, and as many have reminded me, they are the exact same subsidies that the Democrats used as a smokescreen to carry out their 43-day government shutdown. But at the end of all of this, they don't want to do anything about it even though we have information and have seen research that, by extending these pandemic-era subsidies--and by the way, COVID is over; the pandemic is over, but they want to continue to fund it like it is still going on.”