Political Quotes

“I thank the Chair. The groups I will quote from have examined the legislation. It is in their interest to really read through the bill and not just the rhetoric. They include the National Federation of Independent Business, the National Association of Manufacturers, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Retail Federation, the Printing Industries of America, the Rubber Manufacturers Association, the National Employee Benefits Institute--the whole institute--the Food Marketing Institute, the Food Distributors International, the American Benefits Council, the National Association of Wholesalers Distributors, the National Restaurant Association, the Associated Builders and Contractors, the International Mass Retail Association, the National Association of Convenience Stores, the Society for Human Resource Management, the Associated General Contractors of America. All of those associations and others are on here; but you get the message when you are talking about hundreds of millions of people. They wrote, after looking at the specifics of the legislation, the following: Employers are not protected from liability-- As an aside, those six words are underlined in the letter by the authors, referring to the McCain-Edwards-Kennedy Patients' Bill of Rights in the first paragraph. They are talking about skyrocketing health costs.…”