Political Quotes

“I yield myself such time as I may consume. In closing, I want to thank my counterpart, Doris Matsui, for her great work on this issue. I so appreciate the leadership and partnership of Mr. Kind and Mr. Murphy in combining these two important health care bills in order to both provide safer, more affordable access to care for those with compromised immune deficiencies, as well as finding ways to save money with the important Medicare program and the SMART Act. I want to thank Andrew Wankum of my staff for his excellent work on this bill, Dan Elling, staff director of the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health, as well as Jennifer Safavian for her leadership on the Ways and Means Committee. But I especially want to thank my constituent friend, Carol Ann Demaret, the mom of David, for her decades of hard work on behalf of these patients. And I appreciate so much Marcia Boyle, the founder of the Immune Deficiency Foundation, and all those patients who for years have come up here asking for this help and change. =========================== NOTE =========================== December 19, 2012 on Page H7306 the following appeared: I want to thank Dan Elling, staff directorof the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health, as well as Jennifer Safavian for her leadership on the Ways and Means Committee.…”