Political Quotes

“it is important to remember how we got here. I still remember voting on the Affordable Care Act at 7:30 in the morning on Christmas Eve. Because this bill--the 2,700-page bill that our Democratic friends did not read and which Ms. Pelosi said we have to pass it before we know what is in it--that bill was passed on a party-line vote and signed into law by President Obama without any participation of Republicans. So it is a little hard on the ears to hear my friend, the Democratic leader, plead for bipartisan solutions now. I agree with him, it is not too late because this is an open amendment process. Our Democratic friends, rather than trying to kill the bill, can help us make this bill better. I suspect that based on their comments, that they really need--we need to have some sort of remedial legislation 101 because this is not the end of the process. But in order for the House and the Senate to work together to come up with a bill we both agree to, there is a conference committee, which Members of both parties can appoint Members to the conference committee to work out differences. I don't believe my friend, the Democratic leader, is really interested in working on a bipartisan basis to fix the structural defects in ObamaCare. We know the individual market is in meltdown. Premiums are skyrocketing, contrary to the promises made by the President when the bill was sold.…”