Political Quotes

“ObamaCare is more unpopular today than when it was passed in 2010. I know the proponents of ObamaCare--my Democratic friends who voted for it in a party-line vote--had hoped it would meet their expectations and the promises the President and other people made about how it would be implemented and what its impact would be on our health care system. I am amazed, though, that our colleagues say: You know, it is the law of the land. We cannot change it. Well, that is completely contrary to our constitutional system where the very legitimacy of our laws depends on the consent of the governed. Of course it is within the power of Congress to change the law. That is what we do when it turns out the law does not work as those who hoped it would or it, unfortunately, meets the expectations of those skeptics who thought it would never work. So it is within our power to change this law. We will be voting today on a very important provision that will give us an opportunity to start over and to address the failures of ObamaCare that even some of its most ardent advocates had hoped it would meet. So today we will vote on a number of matters, including a cloture vote on the underlying bill. I will be voting yes on cloture because I do not understand how I can otherwise vote on a matter I want to see passed. In other words, we will vote to proceed to a bill that defunds ObamaCare. I believe we should defund ObamaCare.…”