Political Quotes

“to summarize what we just went through and where we are, we have scheduled for next week the consideration of several important bills related to health care. Given the objection to the motion to proceed to these bills, it was necessary to file cloture motions on the motions to proceed; thus, we now have scheduled up to two cloture motions on Monday at 5:15, beginning at 5:15. The first will be on a motion to proceed to the Medical Care Access Protection Act, and the second vote will be on the cloture motion relative to the motion to proceed to the Healthy Mothers and Healthy Babies Access to Care Act. If those cloture motions fail, on Tuesday morning we will have a cloture vote on proceeding to the Small Business Health Plans legislation. Mr. President, the way this is configured is that we have a vote on the first medical liability bill, which is a comprehensive bill built pretty much on this Texas model that I referred to in my earlier remarks. If that is successful, we will continue the debate on that. If it is not, we would continue with another medical liability bill that has a slightly different focus to it, again based on the Texas model. It will focus on in particular where medical liability premiums are felt most acutely: in women's health care and babies' health care, pediatrics and maternal health care, and that is obstetricians and gynecologists. I hope we will be allowed to proceed and debate on those two.…”